Grammar A to Z

Some grammatical terms may be familiar to you, but others can be confusing or hard to
remember. Clicking on any term below will give you a quick and clear definition. Below the
categorized section you’ll find all the terms listed from A to Z, so you can browse that way if you
prefer.

Nouns

 Noun
 Abstract noun
 Collective noun
 Common noun
 Concrete noun
 Countable noun
 Gerund
 Mass noun
 Proper noun
 Uncountable noun
 Verbal noun

Verbs

 Verb  Regular
 Active  Split infinitive
 Agent  Subject
 Auxiliary verb  Transitive
 Finite verb
 Infinitive
 Intransitive
 Irregular
 Modal verb
 Non-finite verb
 Object
 Participle
 Passive
 Phrasal verb
Adjectives

 Adjective
 Attributive
 Classifying
 Comparative
 Positive
 Postpositive
 Predicative
 Qualitative
 Superlative

Pronouns

 Pronoun
 Personal pronoun
 Possessive pronoun

Articles

 Article
 Definite article
 Indefinite article

Tenses and Moods

 Aspect  Subjunctive
 Conditional  Tense
 Continuous
 Future
 Imperative
 Indicative
 Interrogative
 Mood
 Past
 Perfect
 Present
 Progressive
Sentences

 Sentence
 Syntax

Clauses

 Clause
 Conditional clause
 Coordinate clause
 Defining relative clause
 Main clause
 Non-restrictive relative clause
 Relative clause
 Restrictive relative clause
 Subordinate clause

Speech

 Direct speech
 Indirect speech
 Reported speech

Other parts of speech

 Part of speech
 Adverb
 Conjunction
 Determiner
 Exclamation
 Interjection
 Preposition
 Quantifier
 Word class
Other useful terms

 Adjunct  Modifier
 Adverbial  Morpheme
 Affirmative  Morphology
 Cohesion  Negative
 Cohesive device  Phrase
 Complement  Phoneme
 Compound  Plural
 Connective  Possessive
 Consonant  Prefix
 Contraction  Root Word
 Coordination  Schwa
 Corpus  Second person
 Digraph  Slang
 Ellipsis  Split digraph
 Etymology  Standard English
 First person  Stress
 Formal  Subordination
 Fronting/fronted  Suffix
 GPC  Syllable
 Grapheme  Third person
 Grapheme-phoneme correspondences  Trigraph
 Homograph  Unstressed
 Homonym  Vowel
 Homophone  Word
 Inflection  Word family
 Informal