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Parts Of Speech
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English
9th Grade
10/13/2010

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noun
Definition
word used to name person, place, or thing
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common noun
Definition
names a group of persons, places, or things, and is not capitalized
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proper noun
Definition
names a particular person, place, or thing and is always capitalized
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pronoun
Definition
a word used in place of one or more than one noun.
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antecedent
Definition
the word that a pronoun refers to and gives the pronoun meaning
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personal pronoun
Definition
a pronoun that refers to one of the three possible ways of making statements.
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reflexive pronoun
Definition
the -self, -selves forms of personal pronounds
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relative pronoun
Definition
used to introduce adjective clauses.
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interrogative pronoun
Definition
used in questions
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demonstrative pronoun
Definition
used to point out a specific person or thing
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indefinite pronoun
Definition
not referring to a definite person or thing, frequently used without antecedents
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adjective
Definition
modifies (describes) a noun or pronoun
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article
Definition
three most used adjectives: an, a, the
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verb
Definition
word that expresses action or otherwise helps to make a statement
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helping verb
Definition
helps main verb fit in the sentence
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linking verb
Definition
verb that helps to make a statement not by expressing action, but serving as a link between two words.
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adverb
Definition
a word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb
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coordinating conjunction
Definition
joins single words or groups of words of the same kind.
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correlative conjunction
Definition
connects items of the same kind, and are always used in pairs
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preposition
Definition
word that shows relationship of a noun, or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence
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interjection
Definition
exclamatory sentence that expresses emotion. no gramatical relation to the rest of the sentence. often end in an exclamation point
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3 questions adjectives ask
Definition
what kind, which one, how many?
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4 questions adverbs answer
Definition
where, when, how, to what extent?
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