Parts of Speech
- Noun: A person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., dog, house, love, happiness)
- Pronoun: Replaces a noun (e.g., he, she, it, they)
- Adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun (e.g., big, small, happy, sad)
- Verb: Expresses an action or state of being (e.g., run, jump, think, be)
- Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb (e.g., quickly, slowly, very, extremely)
- Preposition: Shows the relationship between words (e.g., in, on, at, with)
- Conjunction: Joins words, phrases, or clauses (e.g., and, but, or, because)
- Interjection: Expresses strong emotion (e.g., Wow!, Oh!, Hey!)
Sentence Structure
- Subject: The person or thing doing the action
- Predicate: The part of the sentence that tells what the subject does
- Clause: A group of words with a subject and a verb
- Phrase: A group of words that functions as a single part of speech
Verb Tense
- Present Tense: Expresses actions happening now (e.g., I eat an apple.)
- Past Tense: Expresses actions that happened in the past (e.g., I ate an apple yesterday.)
- Future Tense: Expresses actions that will happen in the future (e.g., I will eat an apple tomorrow.)
- Present Perfect Tense: Expresses actions that started in the past and continue to the present or have recently finished (e.g., I have eaten an apple.)
- Past Perfect Tense: Expresses actions that were completed before a specific time in the past (e.g., I had eaten an apple before I went to school.)
- Future Perfect Tense: Expresses actions that will be completed by a specific time in the future (e.g., I will have eaten an apple by the time you arrive.)
Other Important Terms
- Subject-Verb Agreement: The subject and verb must agree in number (singular or plural).
- Active Voice: The subject performs the action.
- Passive Voice: The subject receives the action.
- Direct Object: Receives the action of the verb.
- Indirect Object: Receives the direct object.
- Sentence Fragment: An incomplete sentence.
- Run-on Sentence: Two or more independent clauses joined incorrectly.
- Comma Splice: Two independent clauses joined by a comma without a coordinating conjunction.

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