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O

object

a constituent of a clause, which is part of the predicate and follows the main

verb. In the sentence I ate the chocolate bar, I is the subject, ate is the main verb, and

the chocolate bar is the object.

P

predicate

For example, I hate eating bananas is a sentence: I is the subject, hateeating bananas is the predicate, and hate is the main verb. In contrast, eating bananas isnot a sentence because it does not contain a main, finite verb.

prepositions

a class of words which include items such as in, on, over, through, out, etc.

pronouns pronouns are a word class which can replace nouns in a sentence. Examples

include she, I, you, them, him, its, theirs.

S

sentence

a grammatical unit consisting of at least one main clause, with a subject and

V

verb phrase

 a grammatical unit containing either a finite or non-finite verb.

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