Proper Nouns: Name a particular person, place, or thing (Jose, Miami, White House)
Common Nouns: Name a person, place, or thing (man, city, building)
Abstract Nouns: Name a quality, characteristic, or idea (beauty, strength, courage)
Concrete Nouns: Name an object (desk, book, table) that can be perceived with the senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste)
Collective Nouns: Name groups (team, family, class)
Compound Nouns: Name a noun of more than one word (high school, word processor)
Personal: See the mini-lesson on pronouns
Personal (Reflexive and Intensive): myself, yourself, himself (all personal pronouns ending with -self or -selves)
Relative: who/whom, which/that, whose
Interrogative: who, whom, which, what, whose (when used to ask a question)
Demonstrative: this, these, that, those
Indefinite: See the mini-lesson on pronouns
What kind: blue, large, strong
Which one: this man, that woman
How many: several reasons, five students
Nouns used as adjectives: dog house, house paint, table tennis
Physical action: hit, play, sing
Mental action: think, imagine, wonder
Being: is, was, am, will be (an form of the verb "to be")
Modify a verb:
How: He drives carefully. ("carefully" modifies the verb "drives," explaining how he drives)
When: He drives early in the morning. ("early" explains when he drives)
Where: He drives everywhere ("everywhere" explains where he drives)
To what extent: He can almost drive. ("almost" explains the extent to which he drives)
How often: He drives daily. ("daily" explains how often he drives)
Modify an adjective: He is an unusually good driver. ("unusually" modifies the adjective "good," explaining how well he drives)
Modify an adverb: He drives very well. ("very" modifies the adverb "well," explain how well)
Nouns used as adverbs: He is leaving tomorrow. ("tomorrow" is a noun used as an adverb to explain when he is leaving)
Propositions of place: See the mini-lesson on prepositions for examples
Prepositions of movement: See the mini-lesson on prepositions for examples
Prepositions of time: See the mini-lesson on prepositions for examples
Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, for (meaning "because"), or, nor, so (meaning "therefore"), yet
Correlative conjunctions (used in pairs):
Either . . . or: She will take either math or comp.
Neither . . . nor: She will take neither math nor comp.
Both . . . and: She will take both math and comp.
Subordinating conjunctions:
She went to her math class right after comp.
She took math although she hates math.
She took math as it is a requirement for her major.
She does not like math as much as she likes comp.
Her comp class is before her math class.
She will miss her math quiz if she is late.
She will pass math provided that she passes her final exam.
She will pass her comp class since she did well on her research paper.
She spent more time studying math than she did her comp notes
She will not pass her math class unless she passes her final exam.
She will pass her math class when she passes her final exam.
She listens to music while she does her homework.
Note: subordinating conjunctions can also come at the start of the sentence though a comma is needed after its word group, for example: While she does her homework, she listens to music.