Noun
A noun is a person, place or thing. Examples: Matthew House Discipline Children Complaints Additional resources: “When Words Collide” Seventh Edition, pg. 31 “When Words Collide” Eighth Edition, pg. 59 “When Words Collide” Ninth Edition, pg. 49 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/01/
Pronoun
A pronoun takes the place of a noun. Examples: She Me Him Our Anyone What Who Additional resources: “When Words Collide” Seventh Edition, pg. 32 “When Words Collide” Eighth Edition, pg. 60 “When Words Collide” Ninth Edition, pg. 50 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/01/
Verb
A verb describes the action or state of being of the sentence’s subject. Examples: He caught the stick. Describe this. I ran. She is nice. Additional resources: “When Words Collide” Seventh Edition, pg. 19 “When Words Collide” Eighth Edition, pg. 45 “When Words Collide” Ninth Edition, pg. 39 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/01/
Adjective
An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun. It usually answers these questions: • Which one? • How many? • What kind? Examples: Mark ate the rotten pie. Mark ate the delicious pie. Additional resources: “When Words Collide” Seventh Edition, pg. 35 “When Words Collide” Eighth Edition, pg. 64 “When Words Collide” Ninth Edition, pg. 53 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/01/
Adverb
An adverb modifies another adverb, verb or adjective. It usually answers the questions how, when, where, why and/or for what purpose. Examples: She quickly ate her pizza. Keegan drove on Monday. Additional resources: “When Words Collide” Seventh Edition, pg. 38 “When Words Collide” Eighth Edition, pg. 66 “When Words Collide” Ninth Edition, pg. 56 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/01/
Conjunctions
Compound modifiers
Dangling and misplaced modifiers
Subject agreement
Possession
Clauses
Appositive
Appositives are nouns/ pronouns or noun/pronoun phrases that rename other nouns. They are offset by commas.
Simple test to know if it is an appositive: Can you replace the initial noun with the appositive?
Examples:
Ex. 1: Sally, the mayor’s wife, explained why she left the Navy.
(The mayor’s wife explained why she left the Navy.)
Ex. 2: She decided to invite John, her ex-boyfriend, to the party.
(She decided to invite her ex-boyfriend to the party.)
Additional resources:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/01/