KEY WORD INDEX OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS

Adjectives
comparison
-er
-est
many
modifier
more, most
much
neither
phrase
predicate adjective prepositional phrase real
superlative

Adverbs
awkwardness
conjunctive adverb
dangling modifier
hopefully
however
intensifier
-ly
maybe modifier
prepositional phrase
really
revision
sometime
sometimes
sort of
split infinitive then

Case
objective possessive subjective (nominative)

Conjunctions
and
after
also
although as
because
before
beside
both … and
but
clause
conjunctive adverb coordinating conjunction emphasis for
however if
moreover namely
neither … nor nevertheless not only … but also
or
parallelism since
so
so that than that when

Gender
agreement
case
he/she
man, mankind
Ms., Miss, Mrs.
names
salutation
sexist language
she/he
titles

Indefinite articles a, an
British English modifier

Interjection
adverb emphasis however oh
parentheses

Languages
accent Arabic
Asian languages
French
German
Japanese
Latin
punctuation
Russian
Spanish
spelling

Modifiers
adjective
adverb
comparison
dangling modifier
good
misplaced modifier well

Mood
imperative
indicative
subjunctive

Negatives
double negative
misplaced modifier
no
nobody
none
not
nothing

Noun
agreement
capitalization
case
collective noun
common noun
declension
gender gerund
’II
names
noun clause
noun phrase
number
object
person
plural
possessive
predicate noun
proper nouns
subject
subject complement
title

Numbers
cardinal number
dates
fractions
one
ordinal number
percent
zero

Parts of a sentence
agent
antecedent
appositive clause
direct object
expletive
fragment
indirect object
list
nonrestrictive clause
nonrestrictive phrase
object
phrase
predicate
predicate adjective
predicate noun
restrictive clause
restrictive phrase
series
subject
subject complement
subordination

Parts of speech
adjective
adverb
conjunction
interjection
noun
preposition
pronoun
verb

Prepositions
about
above
across
after
against
along
among
as
at
before
behind
below
beneath
beside
beyond
by
down
during
for
from
in
into
like
of
off
on
onto
out
prepositional phrase
since
through
toward
under
up
with
without

Pronouns
agreement
antecedent
anybody
appositive
case
collective pronoun
declension
demonstrative pronoun
each
everyone
everything
he, him, his
he/she
I
indefinite pronoun
inflection
intensifier
intensive pronoun
interrogative pronoun
it
’ll
me, myself
modifier
more
neither
nobody
none
no one
nothing
one
person
personal pronoun
plural
possessive
reciprocal pronoun
reflexive pronoun
relative pronoun
-self
several
she/he, her/him
she, her, hers
some
somebody
someone
something
that
their
them
they
’ve
we
who
whoever
whom
whomever
whose
you
your

Punctuation
accent
apostrophe
asterisk
bracket
clause
colon
comma
conjunction
dash
ellipsis
exclamation point
hyphen
parentheses
period
question mark
quotation mark
semicolon
sentence
symbol

Questions
indirect question
interrogative
rhetorical question

Rhetorical devices
irony
metaphor
rhetoric
simile

Rules
agreement
audience
capitalization
dialect
editing
grammar
punctuation
revision
standard English
style

Sentence
compound sentence
indirect quotation
inversion
paragraph
quotation
run-on

Spelling
dictionary
languages

Style
audience
bland writing
clarity
clichés
editing
efficiency
emphasis
grammar
inversion
order of words
parallelism
redundancy
repetition
revision
tone
vocabulary

Symbols
asterisk
emphasis
percent

Typography
bold
italic
lower case
typeface
upper case

Usage
Black English
British English
colloquial
dialect
grammar
jargon
scientific language
slang
standard English

Verbs
active voice
agreement
am
are
auxiliary verb
be
can
clauses
compound predicate
conjugation
could
do
fragment
future tense
gerund
have
imperative
infinitive
inflection
intransitive
irregular verb
is
linking verb
’ll
main verb
may
might
mood
must
’nt
number
participle
passive voice
past tense
plural
predicate
present tense
regular verb
shall
should
split infinitive
tense
transitive
voice
was
wasn’t
were
will
would

Words
compound word
consonant
contraction
homonym
main form
prefix
suffix
syllable
synonym
vowel