Grammatical Terms

This bingo card has a free space and 55 words: 2nd person personal pronoun: Words like “you” that refer to the person or people being spoken or written to., 3rd person personal pronoun: Words such as “she,” “it,” and “they” that are used to refer to other people and things that are not being directly addressed, without naming them specifically with a noun., Action verb: Describes the action that the subject of the sentence performs, Active voice: The form of a verb in which the subject is the person or thing that performs the action, Adjectival clause: Modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase., Adjective: A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it., Adverb: A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc., Adverbial clause: A clause—a group of words with a subject and a verb—that acts as an adverb in a sentence to modify the main clause., Antecedent: A person, place, thing, or clause represented by a pronoun or pronominal adjective., Appositive: A noun that immediately follows and renames another noun in order to clarify or classify it., Article: Determiners or noun markers that function to specify if the noun is general or specific in its reference., Clause: A group of words working together that contains both a subject and a verb., Complex sentence: Is made up of a main clause and a subordinate clause connected to each other with a subordinating conjunction., Compound sentence: Joins two or more sentences that have related ideas of equal importance., Compound-complex sentence: A sentence with two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause., Conjunction: A part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses, which are called its conjuncts., Coordinating conjunctions: A conjunction that connects words, phrases, and clauses that are coordinate, or equal to each other., Demonstrative pronoun: A word used to stand in for a noun., Dependent clause: A group of words that contains a subject and verb but does not express a complete thought., Direct object: The person or thing that directly receives the action or effect of the verb., Exclamatory sentence: It’s one that expresses sudden or strong emotions and feelings., Gerund: A gerund usually refers in a general way to the activity represented by the verb it’s derived from., Gerundial phrase: a group of words that begins with a gerund and includes any of its modifiers or objects, Indefinite pronoun: to refer to people or things without saying exactly who or what they are., Independent clause: a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought., Indirect object: a noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb, but is not the primary object., Infinitive phrase: a group of words consisting of an infinitive and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the actor(s), direct object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the infinitive, Interjection: a word or phrase used to express a feeling or to request or demand something., Interrogative pronoun: a pronoun that is used to introduce a question., Intransitive verb: a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object., Linking verb:, Noun: a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun)., Noun clause: a type of subordinate clause (dependent clause) that acts as a noun in a sentence., Noun phrase: a word or group of words that functions in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional object., Participial phrase: A participial phrase is a type of modifier that uses the participle form of a verb to describe a noun., Passive voice: the action's target is the focus, and the verb acts upon the subject., Past participle: The form of a verb, typically ending in -ed, Past tense of a verb: the form of a verb used to describe actions in the past, Personal pronoun: Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person., Phrase: a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause., Predicate: the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject, Preposition: a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, Prepositional phrase: a group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify the object., Present participle: the form of a verb, ending in -ing, Present tense of a verb: used to talk about events happening in the present moment., Proper noun: a name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with initial capital letters, Reflexive pronoun: a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun within the same sentence., Relative pronoun: a pronoun that's used to introduce a relative clause., Subjective of a sentence: If a statement relies on personal feelings or beliefs, Subjunctive: relating to or denoting a mood of verbs expressing what is imagined or wished or possible., Subjunctive Mood: The subjunctive mood is a verb form used to refer to a hypothetical scenario or to express a wish, suggestion, or command, Subordinating conjunction: a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause, Transitive verb: a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, Verb: a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence. and Verb phrase: the part of a sentence containing the verb and any direct or indirect object, but not the subject..

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