Basic English Grammar Terms
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Basic English Grammar Terms

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This content defines key grammatical terms including parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns) and sentence structures (subjects, predicates, compound sentences), along with word relationships (synonyms, antonyms).

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Noun

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., cat, school)

Verb

A word that shows action or a state of being (e.g., run, is)

Adjective

A word that describes a noun (e.g., blue, happy, fast)

Adverb

A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb (e.g., quickly)

Pronoun

A word used in place of a noun (e.g., he, she, it, they)

Subject

The part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about

Predicate

The part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or is

Compound Sentence

Two complete sentences joined by a conjunction (e.g., and, but)

Synonym

A word that means the same or nearly the same as another (e.g., big/large)

Antonym

A word that means the opposite of another (e.g., hot/cold)