Languages Proficiency & Reading Comprehension

• use to name people, places, animals, and things

  noun
• refers to people, places, animals, or things in general

  common noun
• specifically refers to a particular people, places, animal, or things

  proper noun
• refers to nouns that exist physically and can be perceived through the five senses directly or indirectly

  concrete noun
• a noun that cannot be perceived through the five senses

  abstract noun
• noun that refers to something that can be counted

  count noun
• a noun that refers to something that is uncountable

  mass noun
• a noun that refers to groups of people or things

  collective noun
• is a word that substitutes a noun or a noun phrase

  pronoun
• used in place of nouns referring to specific people or things

  personal pronoun
• Subjective pronouns

  • I
  • we
  • you
  • he/she/it
  • they
• Objective pronouns

  • me
  • us
  • you
  • him/her/it
  • them
• Reflexive pronouns

  • myself
  • ourselves
  • yourself
  • yourselves
  • himself/herself/itself
  • themselves
• Possessive pronouns

  • mine
  • ours
  • yours
  • his/hers/its
  • theirs
• First Person Singular (Subjective, Objective, Reflexive, and Possessive)

  • I
  • me
  • myself
  • mine
• First Person Plural (Subjective, Objective, Reflexive, and Possessive)


  • we
  • us
  • ourselves
  • ours
• Second Person Singular and Plural (Subjective, Objective, Reflexive, and Possessive)

  • you
  • you
  • yourself
  • yourselves
  • your
  • yours
• Third Person Singular (Subjective, Objective, Reflexive, and Possessive)

  • he/she/it
  • him/her/it
  • himself/herself/itself
  • his/hers/its
• Third Person Plural (Subjective, Objective, Reflexive, and Possessive)

  • them
  • they
  • theirselves
  • theirs
• is used to describe what a person does or what happens

  verb
• is a verb that expresses action

  action verbs
• is a verb that is used together with a main verb to form a verb phrase (have, be, do, shall, will)

  auxiliary verbs
• is a verb that serves as a connection between a subject and further information about that subject (am, is, are, might, to become)

  linking verbs
• expresses the time of the verb

  verb tense
• Simple Present, Past, and Future Tense

  • go
  • went
  • will + go
• Continous Present, Past, and Future

  • is/are + going
  • was/were + going
  • will + be + going
• Perfect Present, Past, and Future

  • has/have gone
  • had gone
  • will + have + gone
• Perfect Progressive Present, Past, and Future

  • has/have + been + going
  • had + been + going
  • will + have + been + going
• is a word that describes a noun

  adjective
• an adjective is used in cases where there are no differences between two compared nouns (good, smart, beautiful)

  positive form
• an adjective is used when comparing two nouns (better, smarter, more beautiful)

  comparative form
• an adjective is used when comparing three or more nouns (best, smartest, most beautiful)

  supertative form
• a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb (slowly, quickly, warmly)

  adverb
• when did it happen?, how often does it happen?(today, after, usually, early, while, tonight)

  adverbs of time
• location or position of an action or event in relation to a specific place (near, there, farther)

  adverbs of place
• provide more information about how the action was performed or how something happens (slowly, nervously, rapidly, gladly, poorly, wisely, eventually)

  adverbs of manner
• express the intensity of a verb or extent to which something happens (almost, very, simply, nearly, enough)

  adverbs of degree
• used to answer questions raised by others (yes, no, certainly, never, indeed, not)

  adverbs of affirmation and negation
• is a word used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence (in, up, on, with)

  preposition
• when (at 4 o'clock, in april, on tuesday)

  preposition of time