| acronym, initialism | action verb | active voice | adjective |
| adjectival clause | adjectival phrase | adverb | adverbial clause |
| adverbial phrase | antecedent (pronouns) | appositive (noun appositive) | article (a, an, the) |
| auxiliary verb | case (case of pronouns) | clause | collective noun |
| comparative state(adjectives, adverbs) | complement | complement verb (verb + preposition) (e.g., drop out) | complex sentence |
| compound adjective (phrasal adjective) (hyphenation) | compound predicate (two or more verbs) | compound sentence | compound verb |
| conjugation (of verbs) | conjunction | conjunctive adverb (however and others) | consonant |
| contraction | coordinate adjective | coordinating conjunction (and, or, but, and others) | copulative verb (verb to be and others) |
| correlative conjunction | dangling modifier | dangling participle | defining clause |
| definite article (the word the) | demonstrative pronoun | dependent clause | derivative adjective |
| derivative noun | direct object | elliptical clause | elliptical expression |
| finite verb | fragment (sentence fragment) | fused participle | future-perfect progressive tense |
| future-perfect tense | future-progressive tense | future tense | gender |
| gerund (-ing verbs) | group noun | helping verb (auxiliary verb) | homograph |
| homonym | homophone | imperative mood (of verbs) | imperfect tense, progressive tense |
| indefinite article (a and an) | indefinite pronoun | independent clause | indicative mood (of verbs) |
| indirect object | infinitive phrase | infinitive verb | initialism, acronym |
| intensive pronoun | interjection | interrogative mood (of verbs) | interrogative pronoun |
| intransitive verb | irregular verb | linking verb | main clause |
| main verb | modal auxiliary verb | modifier | mood (of verbs) |
| no-action verb | nominal clause | nondefining clause (which clause) | nonparallel construction |
| nonrestrictive clause (which clause) | noun | noun absolute | noun adverb |
| noun appositive | noun chain | noun clause | noun modifier |
| noun substitute | nouniness | number (singular, plural) | object (of verbs, of preposition) |
| object complement | object of a preposition | objective case (case of pronouns) | parallel construction |
| participle | parts of speech | passive voice | past-participial phrase |
| past participle | past-perfect progressive tense | past-perfect tense | past-progressive tense |
| past tense | perfect tenses | person | personal pronoun |
| phrase | plural | positive state (adjectives, adverbs) | possessive case (case of pronouns) |
| possessives | predicate | predicate adjective | predicate nominative |
| predicate noun | preposition | prepositional phrase | present-participial phrase |
| present participle (-ing verbs) | present-perfect progressive tense | present-perfect tense | present-progressive tense |
| present tense | primary auxiliary verb | principal parts (of verbs) | progressive tense |
| pronoun | proper noun | reciprocal pronoun | reflexive pronoun |
| regular verb | relative pronoun (that, which, who, whom, whose) | restrictive clause (that clause) | run-on sentence |
| -self words (myself, herself, etc.) | sentence | sentence adverb (the word hopefully) | serial-comma rule (red, white, and blue) |
| singular | split infinitive | subject | subjective case (case of pronouns) |
| subjunctive mood (of verbs) | subordinate clause | subordination | subordinating conjunction |
| superlative state (adjectives and adverbs) | switcheroo noun (I coined this term.) | tense (of verbs) | transitive verb |
| truncated clause | verb | verb “to be” | verbal object |
| verbal phrase | vowel | | |
