Grammatical terms,
made brilliantly clear.
Learning grammatical terms is essential to take your language study or writing skills to the next level. If you're learning a foreign language in a classroom setting, then you must know the grammatical terms so you and your tutor can discuss language structures efficiently. If you're looking to improve your writing, then you must know the grammatical terms to remove the guesswork from aspects such as punctuation, sentence structure, and capitalization.
Know the terminology.
Remove the guesswork.
For example, to use commas accurately, you must understand dependent clauses, independent clauses, conjunctions, interjections, the vocative case, cumulative adjectives, parenthesis, and apposition.
If you don't understand those terms, you are flying by the seat of your pants regarding commas.
The nine principal parts of speech.
Here are the nine principal parts of speech (also called "word classes"). These detailed lessons are intended for teachers or advanced learners.
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Determiners
Interjections
Nouns
Prepositions
Pronouns
Verbs
Introduction to the Nine Parts of Speech
This lesson with the accompanying video is a helpful, simplified introduction to the nine parts of speech.
276 grammatical terms.
One place to find them.
This A-Z list of grammatical terms provides links to the explanations of the meanings. Each entry has a link to a lesson that includes example sentences as well as a printable and sendable test. Many entries also have a video tutorial.
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Use the existing Grammar Monster parts-of-speech games, confidence tests and reference lists for practice, homework or classroom activities.
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