English language

• nouns : person place or thing.
• common nouns: ordinary things eg. desk chair, elbow, pillow
• pronouns: stands in place of a noun
• proper nouns: names of people places and things eg. Italy, Seton Rogers
• collective nouns: group eg. Class of student, Tower of giraffe
• abstract nouns: ideas feelings etc eg. Happiness, sadness, anger
• compound noun: a noun that is made up of two or more words eg. ice-cream, six-pack
• personal pronoun: a pronoun that refers to a person or thing, such as I, you, he, she, and we
• possessive pronoun: a pronoun used to indicate possession, such as my, your, his, her, our, their
• reflexive pronoun: a pronoun used when the subject performs an action on itself, such as myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, themselves
• interrogative pronoun: a pronoun used to ask questions, such as what, where, why, how, whose
• Demonstrative pronoun: this, that, these, those
• Indefinite: any, some, all, none, either, neither, both
• articles: definite (the) indefinite= (a/an)
• adjectives: adds to a noun + describing word
• descriptive: happy student, loyal friend
• proper adjective: Italian man
• possessive adjectives: my book, his pen
• compound adjective: well-rounded student
• verbs: action/doing words
• Auxiliary verb: helping verb eg. has, had, have
• infinitive: starts with 'to'
• transitive/intransitive: trans= need someone or something to do the action. intrans=don't need someone or something to do the action
• adverb: tells us about the verb
• conjunctions: help us connect ideas, sentences, or phrases together eg. "I like reading books and watching movies."
• co-ordinating: FANBOYS= for and nor but yet so
• sub-ordinating= everything else but fanboys eg. because, while, although.
• prepositions: shows relationship between smalls word
• apostrophe: a punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession (e.g. Harry's book; boys' coats) or the omission of letters (e.g. can't)
• omission;when someone leaves out a part of what they're saying.
• singular possession; a single object or thing that belongs to one person or thing eg. the dog's treats.
• plural possession is when two or more people own the one thing eg. the dogs' treats.
• comma: used to separate items in a series, after an introduction, starting a sentence with sub-ordinating conjunction
• commas after a introduction: all day long, I think about my dog alone at home.
• comma splice error: instead of putting a comma, you should be using a co-ordinating conjunction eg. I love my friend but she can be mean
• adverb of manner: how is something done
• adverb of place: where is something done?
• adverb of manner 2.0: usually end in -ly eg. quickly, hungrily, cheerfully
• adverb of place 2.0: here, there, nowhere, up down
• adverb of time: when is something done?