English - Fourth Monthly Reviewer

• grammar - set of rules that explain how words are used in a language
• language - system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other
• noun - a name of a person, place, thing, event, or animal
• pronoun - a noun substitute
• verb - an action or non-action word
• adverb - a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb
• adjective - a word that limits, modifies, describes, restricts or amplifies a noun or a pronoun
• preposition - a word or a group of words that is used with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, location, or time, or to introduce an object
• conjunction - a word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words
• interjection - a spoken word, phrase, or sound that expresses sudden or strong feeling
• tense - a form of verb that is used to show when an action happened
• present ordinary tense - expresses an action that happens habitually in the present and also known as the simple present
• present emphatic - emphasizes or strengthens an action that happens in the present
• present progressive tense - expresses an action that is taking place at the moment of speaking
• past ordinary tense- expresses an action that happened in a definite past time and also known as the simple past
• past emphatic tense - emphasizes or strengthens an action that happened in the past
• past progressive tense - expresses an action that was going in the past when another past action occurred
• used to form - expresses an action that happened habitually in the past
• future ordinary tense - expresses an action that will take place in the future time and also known as the simple future
• future progressive tense - it indicates continuing action, something that will be happening, going on, at some point in the future.
• future going to form - it also indicates future action that is formed using is, are, am + going to + base form of the verb
• present perfect tense - it expresses an action that began in the past and continues to the present
• past perfect tense - it expresses an action that happened in the past before another past action occured
• future present tense - it expresses an action that will take place in the future before another future action takes place or future time
• voice - it indicates the form of the transitive verb that shows whether the subject is the doer or receiver of the action
• active voice - the subject acts as the doer of the action
• passive voice - the subject acts as the receiver of the action
• direct speech - it is a kind of speech where the exact words of the speaker are repeated by another person
• indirect speech - it is a kind of speech that gives the words of the speaker as reported by another person
• modal - it is an auxiliary word that expresses a special meaning
• tag question - it is a short question added to a statement
• antecedent - it is also known as a referent and it is to which the pronoun refers
• coordinating conjunction - a conjunction that joins words, phrases, or clauses of equal importance
• subordinating conjunction - is a connector that introduces independent clauses
• correlative conjunction - a conjunction that joins words, phrases, or clauses and consists of two or more words that go together as set
• simple sentence - a sentence that has one independent clause which contains one subject and one predicate
• compound sentence - a sentence that has two independent clauses or sentences.
• complex sentence - a sentence that consists of one independent and one or more dependent clauses
• transitive verb - it is a verb that needs object to complete its meaning
• intransitive verb - it is a verb that needs no object to complete its meaning