Grammar Grammar

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What is a noun?

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A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples: cat, city, happiness.

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What is a verb?

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A verb is a word that describes an action, occurrence, or state of being. Examples: run, is, think.

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What is an adjective?

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An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun. Examples: blue, quick, happy.

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What is an adverb?

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An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. It often answers how, when, where, or to what extent. Examples: quickly, very, yesterday.

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What is a preposition?

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A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence. Examples: in, on, at, between.

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What is a pronoun?

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A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun to avoid repetition. Examples: he, she, it, they.

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What is a phrase?

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A phrase is a group of words that work together but do not contain a subject-verb pair. Examples: in the park, after the rain.

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What is a clause?

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A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb. It can be independent (can stand alone) or dependent (cannot stand alone).

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What is a subject in a sentence?

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The subject is the part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about. Example: 'The dog barks.' (The dog is the subject.)

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What is a predicate in a sentence?

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The predicate is the part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is. Example: 'The dog barks.' (Barks is the predicate.)