Unit 5 Vocabulary

object

• receives the action of the verb or prepostion

• takes action directly from the verb

direct object

• receives the action from the noun

• receives the action from the verb

transitive verb

• sends action to the subject

• sends action to the verb

intransitive verb

• do not send action to another word

• sends action out to another word

indirect object

• take action indirectly from the subject

• take action indirectly from the verb

diagramming

• shows how words relate in a sentence

• shows how words relate in a paragraph

Compound subject

• 3 or more subjects in one sentence

• 2 subjects in one sentence

modifiers

• describing words, phrases or clauses

• adjectives

• adverbs

• all of the above

object of the preposition

• words linked to the nouns

• words linked to the prepostion

verb phrases

• main verb

• helping verb

• all of the above