English Grammatical Terms required for TEFL

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• Abstract noun feeling concept touch happiness education
• Active voice sentence written subject performing action cat
• Adjective word describe give information noun person place
• Adverb word modifies verb means tells slowly lovelily
• Phrase adverbial words small group verb built adverb
• Agreement words grammatical relationship affects form elements agree
• Ambitransitive student verbs transitive intransitive changing studies intransivite
• Apodosis love term main clause conditional sentence e.g
• Show apostrophe punctuation marks possession contraction omission
• Article words noun general specific definite forms indefinite
• Aspect progressive verb shows action state complete e.g
• Attributive adjective noun copula verb
• Auxiliary verb english negative structure question show tense
• Cardinal numbers written words numerical symbols ordinal
• Clauses building blocks sentences groups words subject verb
• Past simple tense verb complained time
• Surprising colligation type collocation lexical item linked grammatical
• Common noun noun describes class objects car friend dog
• Comparative form adjective adverb compare person thing action
• Complement sentence part verb needed make complete important
• Complex sentence clause formed join main subordinate connective
• Compound sentence formed joining main clauses connective
• Concord words grammatical relationship affects form elements agree
• Concrete nouns touch person animal place thing common
• Conditional i present real time study english
• Conditional i future real time study english
• Conditional present unreal time study english
• Conditional past unreal time studied english
• Conditional verbs form mood describe conditions based real
• Conjunction connectives include words type umbrella term connects
• Connective word joins part text conjunctions prepositions adverbs
• Consonant basic speech sound breath partly obstructed combined
• Continuous tenses verb auxiliary ing called
• Words contracted contractions short made putting letters missed
• Coordinating conjunctions join items equal importance english forming
• Noun defining relative clause listener hotel stayed essential
• Refers deixis words phrases understood context text utterance
• Demonstrative adjective show noun refer singular plural located
• Determiner word introduces noun identifies detail articles demonstratives
• Speech direct marks indirect sentence exact words spoken
• Direct object verb created affected altered action appreciated
• Disjunct speaker expresses writer's attitude sentence fortunately managed
• Ditransitive verbs takes direct object indirect gave letter
• Clause embedded middle marked commas
• Fronted adverbials sentence sun words phrases beginning adverbs
• Future continuous tense verb complaining time
• Future forms verb tenses modal auxiliary referred
• Future perfect continuous tense verb complaining time
• Future perfect tense verb complained time
• Future simple tense verb complain time
• Future unreal conditional time study english
• Languages gender grammatical category found noun pronoun article
• Gerund verb noun made adding ing form read
• Pronounced homophone spelled differently meanings weather dialects homophones are
• Imperative verb sentence form mood tells order command. for
• Perfect continuous tenses verb combine ing called
• Object indirect directly affected direct action verb receive
• Verb infinitive basic form inflection binding subject tense
• Verbs intransitive object called common agree arrive cry
• Verbs irregular form tenses established formula regular called
• Modal verbs show special type affects sentence level
• Mood shows attitude speaker writer action state verb
• Multi-clause sentence term complex a
• Relative non-defining clause noun lives extra information phrase
• English non-standard vocabulary sentence structure informal standard correct
• Noun naming word thing person animal place common
• Noun phrase words small group verb includes describe
• Object sentence thing person involved action carry e.g
• Ordinal numbers cardinal written words numerical symbols
• Passive voice sentence written subject mouse chased cat
• Past continuous progressive verb tense describe actions continued
• Past continuous tense verb complaining time
• Past forms verb tenses auxiliaries referred
• Past perfect verb tense describe actions completed time
• Past perfect continuous tense verb complaining time
• Past perfect tense verb complained time
• I past real conditional time studied english
• Perfect tenses verb auxiliary called
• Personal pronoun word person place thing i older
• Phrasal verb preposition adverb creates meaning original types
• Phrase phrase is small group words verb
• Plural word noun 37817722334 a
• Possessive adjective pronouns show ownership noun
• Possessive pronoun show ownership mine noun called adjectives
• Word man postmodifier modifies e.g chosen job telling
• Predicate simple sentence divided parts subject verb complement
• Predicative adjective copula verb linking noun
• Prefix string letters added beginning root word changing
• Prepositions sentence linking words explain things time space. for
• Prepositional phrase small group words verb preposition mat
• Present continuous i progressive verb tense describe actions
• Present continuous tense verb complaining time
• Present forms verb tenses auxiliaries referred
• Present perfect verb tense describe actions completed i
• Present perfect continuous tense verb complaining time
• Present perfect tense verb complained time
• Present simple tense verb complains time
• Pronoun word replace noun. examples personal possessive
• Proper noun identifies person place thing james brazil
• Protasis apodosis love term main clause conditional sentence
• Spoken received english pronunciation rp regional accent form
• Relative clause type subordinate adapts describes modifies noun
• Speech reported indirect speech or general points writing full
• Object retained job passive sentence active previous gave
• Rhotic pronounce varieties e.g accent speaker letter r
• Word root basic prefix suffix added adding change
• Sentence word group makes sense grammatical unit begin
• Sentence simple formed join main clause subject verb. a
• Verb simple tenses main will/shall called
• Singular noun means person place object
• Standard english usual correct form taught schools formal
• Subject sentence thing person carrying action verb cat
• Subjunctive i verb form mood express things happen
• Clause subordinate attached main make sense subject verb
• Subordinating conjunction introduces dependent clause depends rest sentence
• Suffix string letters end word changing adding meaning
• Superlative form adjective adverb compare person thing action
• Time connectives words phrases reader happening called temporal
• Verbs transitive object called common build cut find
• Verb tense time action place past present future
• Action verbs expresses physical mental state
• Voice shows relationship verb noun phrases connected english
• Vocal vowel speech sound produced comparatively open configuration
• Cognate word similar meaning form related language loan
• Etymology study origins words meanings change develop time

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