Grammar Reminders/Notes:

The Eight Parts of Speech:

Noun:  Names a person, place thing or an idea.
There are six different types of nouns:  common, proper, concrete, abstract, compound and collective.
Common noun:  names a general person, place, thing or an idea. 
Proper noun: names a specific person, place, thing or an idea.
Concrete noun:  you can actually use your five senses to identify this person, place, or thing.
Abstract noun:  cannot use five senes to identify this idea.  
Compound noun:  two or more words together that name a person, place, thing or an idea.
Collective noun:  names a group of people, animals, or things. 

Pronoun:  takes the place of a person, place, thing or an idea.
There are seven different types of pronouns:  personal, reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, and indefinite.
Personal pronoun:  refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about.
Reflexive pronoun:  refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition.
Intensive pronoun:  emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function in the sentence.
Demonstrative pronoun:  points out a person, place, thing, or an idea.
Interrogative pronoun:  introduces a question.
Relative pronoun:  introduces a subordinate clause.
Indefinite pronoun:  refers to a person, place, idea or thing that may not be specifically named. 

Adjective:  Modifies a noun or a pronoun.  Tells what kind?, which one? how many?, and how much?.
Articles:  the most frequently used adjective.  A, An, and, The. 
A and An are called Indefinite Articles.
The is a Definite Article.

Verb:  A word that shows action, or links the subject to a word or phrase that tells about the subject.
Main Verb:  the one word in the sentence that is the main action or state of being.
Modal:  auxiliary verb that is used to express an attitude toward the action or state of being of the main verb
Helping Verb:  also called an auxiliary verb
Verb Phrase:  consists of one main verb and one or more helping verbs
Action Verb:  expresses physical or mental ability
Linking Verb:  connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject
Transitive Verb:  has an object that tells who or what recieves the action of the verb.
Intransitive Verb:  does not have an object.

Adverb:  A word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.  It answres the questions when?, where?, how?, or how much?

Conjunction:  A word that connects words or groups of words. 
Coordinating:
Coorelative:

Preposition:  A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun and another word.  Also directional.
Prepositional Phrase:
Compound Presposition:


Interjection:  A word that has no grammatical function.  Expresses emotion.