6th Grade English Grammar Review

Intransitive verbs
Action Verbs that do NOT have a Direct Object. For example: We ARRIVED at the classroom with three seconds to spare.

Transitive Verbs
Action verbs which MUST have a Direct Object (someone or something who receives the action) For example: Bob BUILT the bridge.

Declarative Sentences
They are used to form statements. For example: Mary is here. My name is Mary.

Interrogative Sentences
Used to ask questions. For example: Where is Mary? What is your name?

Imperative Sentences
Used for commands. For example: Come here. Tell me your name.

Exclamatory Sentences
Used to express strong feelings by making an exclamation. For example: It's alive! Have fun storming the castle!

Simple Subject
Main person or thing in the subject part of the sentence. For example: the horse's black MANE was blowing.

Simple Predicate
Part of the sentence that tells what the subject is doing. For example: The noise of the thunder (Subject) SCARED THE CHILDREN (predicate).

Helping Verb
Comes before the main verb in a sentence. Together they make a verb phrase. For example: Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, will, shall, should, would, can, could, may, might, must.

Personal Pronoun
Replaces the subject or object in a sentence. For example: THEY enjoyed the movie. David gave the tickets to US.

Subject Pronoun
Used when the pronoun is the subject of the sentence. (I walked home from school).
Also used if the pronoun renames the subject. (It is WE who are responsible for our work).

I, you, he, she, it, we, they

Object Pronouns
Used after action verbs. (Bob brought HIM a present). 
Used as the object of the preposition or prepositional phrase (Aunt Kay went with THEM to the store)

Action Verb
Express something a person, place or thing can do. For example: George will run to third base as soon as his SNEEZING fit ends.

Linking Verb
Does not express action, it links the subject of the sentence to more information.
For example: The blue jay APPEARED on the branch.
An, is, are, was, were, be, being, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, smell, taste, turn, etc.

Predicate Noun
Follows a linking verb and tells what the subject is. For example: A trip to Niagara falls is (linking verb) a TREAT (predicate noun).

Interrogative Pronoun
Used to introduce an interrogative sentence.
For example: Who, whom, which, what, whose WHO will take me to the dance? WHAT is the best way to study?

Direct Object
A direct object receives action of the verb. It answers What or Whom.
For example: The electrician installed (action verb) the light FIXTURE (direct object).

Indirect Objects
An indirect object answers the question to whom or form whom.
For example: Mrs. Cruz made her CHILDREN'S lunch.

Adverb
Adverb tells how, when or where about the word it modifies.
Most words that end in -ly, soon, after, now, later, hard, not, fast, often, today, always, very, here
For example: Chan HAPPILY plays ball. OFTEN the team travels on a bus.

Adjective
A word that describes persons, places or things.
For example: What kind? Use DRAWING paper.
How many? Wanda has THREE sisters.
Which one? THAT seat is taken.
Whose? MY dog likes to run.

Demonstrative Adjectives
Point out something and describe nouns by answering the questions: Which one? Which ones?
This, that, these, those
For example: THOSE mountains are the alps. THIS piano is too heavy to remove.

Predicate Adjective
Follows a linking verb and describe what the subject is like.
For example: The air grows MISTY near the waterfall.

Articles
A, an, the

Definite Article
It identifies specific people, places, things or ideas.
For example: THE pot of gold discovered at THE end of THE rainbow.

Indefinite Article
A, an - Called indefinite articles because they refer to one of a general group of people, places, things or ideas.
For example: A fountain, AN orchard.

Antecedent
The word or group of words that a pronoun refer to.
For example: KIM (Antecedent) looked like she saw a ghost. SHE (pronoun) must have been scared.

Indefinite Pronoun
Does not refer to a particular person, place or thing.
Any, all, everybody, nothing, few, neither, much, etc.
For example: Is ANYONE coming to the party?

Reflexive Pronoun
Refers to a noun or pronoun and indicates the same person or thing is involved.
For example: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
George bought HIMSELF a present.

Demonstrative Pronouns
Point out something and take place of the noun.
This, that, these, those
For example: Give THIS to your sister. I like THOSE best.

Possessive pronoun
Shows who or what has something.
For example: The book was Sara's. The book was HERS.

Intensive Pronouns
Adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun that has already been named.
For example: You YOURSELF can understand.