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Title: Parts of Speech
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Total Flash Cards: 8
Created: 01/11/2005 17:55:36
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A noun is a person, place,thing, quality, or act.
Example: pencil, girl, supermarket, happiness
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Verbs are action or existence words that tell what nouns do.
Example: to fly, to run, to be
jump, lived
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An adjective describes a noun.
Example: hairy, crazy, wonderful
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An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or abverb. It often ends in "ly."
Example: carefully, easily, barely
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An outcry or sudden utterance. Usually starts a sentence.
Example: Wow, Gosh, Yippee
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A perpostion describes the relationship between a noun and another noun (or verb or adverb).
Example: to, under, for, at, by, from
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A conjunction joins together words, phrases, or clauses.
Example: and, or, but
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A pronoun replaces a noun or noun phrase that is understood from context.
Example: he, it, they, she,
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