Grammar Terminology

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Grammar Terminology
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Parts of Speech

• Nouns persons, places, things, or ideas
• Pronouns stand in for nouns
• Adjectives describe nouns
• Verbs action words or states of being
• Adverbs describe adjectives, verbs, or other
  adverbs
• Conjunctions words that connect phrases
• Prepositions words that show placement and
  relationships
• Particles adverbs, conjunctions, and other word
  forms that dont really exist in English

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Parts of Speech - Examples

• Nouns man, dog, treaty, house
• Pronouns I, we, me, they, him, it
• Adjectives three, ugly, terrible, happy
• Verbs I run, He flies, She is, They dance
• Adverbs very, terribly, happily, quickly
• Conjunctions and, or, but
• Prepositions under, near, behind, below, in
• Particles on the one hand, for, at the
  same time as

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Verbs

• Verbs have five characteristics
• Person (who is doing the action)
• Number (singular or plural)
• Voice (is someone doing itactive or is someone
  being done topassive)
• Mood (does the verb concern real events or
  possibilities?)
• Tense (when did the action occur?)
• Aspect (was the action completed or left
  incomplete?)

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Verbs and Person
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Verbs and Number
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Verbs and Voice
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Verbs Transitive/Intransitive

• Transitive describes if a verb is capable of
  acting on some noun
• Eric slapped his brother. (slapped is acting on
  brother)
• Intransitive describes if a verb is a state of
  being or cannot act upon a noun
• Jill is pretty. (is a state of existence)
• Fred walks. (walk is not acting upon anything)

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Verbs and Mood
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Verbs and Tense
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Verbs and Aspect
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Other Properties of Verbs

• Verbs in Greek are CONJUGATED
• Conjugation is the processing of making different
  forms of verbs
• Verbs are classified into families by the vowels
  in the endings each family is a different
  CONJUGATION
• Verbs have Principal Parts
• These are 6 forms of the verb that help you to
  remember how to conjugate every tense and mood

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Other Properties of Verbs

• Verbs have INFINITIVES
• Infinitives are verbal nouns
• They begin with to
• They have tense and voice ONLY
• Accents in verbs are RECESSIVE
• The accent in a verb wants to be as FAR-LEFT as
  possible (either penult or antepenult depending
  on the number of syllables)