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Vocabulary Week 1. Campagna Filajowkowski. noun. any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs or of objects of verbs or prepositions Example: A dog just barked Example: to send money from home . verb.
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Vocabulary Week 1 Campagna Filajowkowski
noun • any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs or of objects of verbs or prepositions • Example: A dog just barked • Example: to send money from home.
verb • any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things • Example: The dog barked.
adverb • a word or group of words that serves to modify a whole sentence, a verb, another adverb, or an adjective • Example: Pete is very noisy! • Example: Tim will probably go to the park.
adjective • any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns • Example: the red balloon • Example: the shy girl
pronoun • A word that takes the place of a noun • Example: Please give it to her
conjunction • A word that joins words or groups of words • For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
interjection • any member of a class of words expressing emotion, distinguished in most languages by their use in grammatical isolation • Examples: Hey! Oh! Ouch! Ugh!
clause • a group of words, consisting of a subject and a predicate • Example. Bill went to the mall.
phrase • two or more words acting as a unit in a sentence. • Example: When Bill went to the mall, he saw his sister.
preposition • A part of speech that indicates the relationship of one word to another • Example: They talked to each other.