Grammar
Grammar
See Word Parts of Speech & Grammar Rules for list of commonly used words, their parts of speech categories, and the rules governing their use See Parts of Speech for grammar and usage rules on word categories
Modifiers, Qualifiers & Intensifiers
Modifiers
- modifiers change or add or "modify" the meaning of a word or sentence
- modifiers provide or extent additional meaning to the reader
- types of modifiers
- adjectives
- prepositions
- prepositional phrases
- adverbs
- verbs as modifiers
- participle phrase
- other
- adjective clause
- infinitive phrase
- adverbial clause
- absolute phrase
- Nouns as modifiers
Qualifiers
- qualifiers limit, or "qualify," the meaning of a word
- types of qualifiers:
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Intensifiers
- enhance or strengthen the meaning of a word
- (opposite of qualifiers which limit the meaning of a word)
- intensifiers are either
- adverbs (modify verbs, as in "ran really fast")
- adjectives (intensify an noun, as in "a total lie"
- note that the intensifier "very" is not used to modify an
- types of intensifiers:
- positive intensifiers:
- very, extremely, absolutely, greatly, totally, highly, particularly, seriously, etc.
- negative intensifiers:
- never, at all, dangerously, never, etc.
- intensifiers that can be both positive or negative:
- awfully, completely
- positive intensifiers:
- See
Sentence Diagramming
- diagraming sentences means identifying every part of speech of the words in a sentence
- See Parts of Speech
- see Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Object Complements