1. A small group of words standing
together as a conceptual unit, typically
forming a component of a clause.
Different phrases make a clause or a
sentence.
2. A clause is a collection of words that has a
subject that is actively doing a verb.
Examples of clause
because she smiled at him
when the saints go marching in
4. 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.
5.
6. An adjective is a kind of word (a part of
speech) that modifies (describes) a noun.
7. The part of speech (orword class) that describes
an action or occurrence or indicates a state of
being.
8. a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of
an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing
manner, place, time, or degree
(e.g. gently, here, now, very ).
9. 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’.
10. A modifying word that determines the kind of
reference a noun or noun group has, for
example a, the, every.
