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Parts of Speech
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English
7th Grade
02/09/2006

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pronoun
Definition
a word that takes the place of noun, a group of words acting like a noun, or another pronoun
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verb
Definition
a word that expresses action or a state of being; tells what a noun does or helps to tell what or how it is
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adjective
Definition
a word that modifies the meaning of a noun or pronoun
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adverb
Definition
a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more specific; it can answer the questions when, where, how, how much, or to what extent or degree
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preposition
Definition
a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence
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noun
Definition
a word that names people, places, things, or ideas
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conjunction
Definition
a word or a group of words that joins single words or sentence parts together
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interjection
Definition
a word or a group or words that expresses emotion or exclamation; has no grammatical connection to the other words
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clause
Definition
a group of related words that contain both a subject and a verb
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prepositional phrases
Definition
made up of a preposition and its object and any modifiers of that object
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