Glossary of English Grammatical Terms - 2

Article
English has three articles:

•the - The "definite" article refers to specific objects.
•a, an - The "indefinite" articles refer to unspecified members of a class. The article "a" is used before a word starting with a consonant sound and "an" is used before a word starting with a vowel sound.

Examples:
"the mouse", "a mouse", "an orange mouse",
"an honor" (H is silent), "a horse" (H is aspirated).

Auxiliary Verb
Auxiliary verbs are used with other verbs to express moods or tense.
Common auxiliary verbs are:
will, would, may, might, shall, should, can, could, must

Examples:
"Mary will sing.",
"Mary can sing."

Consonants and Vowels

English uses 26 letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

AEIOU are vowels.

BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ are consonants.

Interjections
Interjections express strong feeling or emotion and have no grammatical relation to any other word in a sentence.
Some common interjections are: Oh, Alas, Aha, Bah, Whew.

Examples:
"Aha! I found it!".