Singular Noun - Names one person, place, thing, or idea. ie.box, Plural Noun - Names more that one person, place, thing, or idea. ie.boxes, Count Nouns - noun that can be counted as one or more, and take an 's' to form the plural. ie. desks, pens, and books., Non-Count Nouns - noun that cannot be counted.  ie. I eat ham. The sunshine is pretty., Possessive Nouns - noun that shows ownership. ie. Sandy's house., Pronoun - a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse ie., I, you , Comparative  Adjective - Adjective that compares two things., Superlative Adjectives - Adjective that compares more than two things., Regular Verb - Verb that form their past and past participle by adding 'ed". ie. studied, Irregular Verb - a verb that does not have definite rules. ie. grew, Gerunds - (verb+ing) ie. collecting or writing, Direct Object - a noun that receives the action of a verb. ie. Peter buys flowers., Indirect Object - the noun or pronoun for which the action is done. ie. Peter buys flowers for his mother., Present Progressive - indicates continuing action. ie. John is moving. , Third Person Singular - Verbs take the 's' suffix when the subject is third person (he, she, it) ie. He drives to class. She works at the store. , Active Voice - the subject is the do-er. ie. Jose fixed the car., Passive Voice - when the action is the focus, not the subject. The computer was fixed by Jose. , 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. ie., gently, quite, then, there, Adjective - a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it., Preposition - a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for ?”., Word Order - the sequence of words in a sentence, especially as governed by grammatical rules and as affecting meaning., Question - a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information.,

Basic Conventions of English Grammar

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