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a word that is the name of something (such as a person, animal, place,
thing, quality, idea, or action) and is typically used in a sentence as subject or object of a verb or as object of a preposition
In the sentence, "Daniel likes cotton candy," Daniel is the noun. |
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a word (such as I, he, she, you, it, we, or they) that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase
In the sentence "The dog is hungry. He wants food," it would be the pronoun and dog would be its noun |
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a word (such as jump, think, happen, or exist) that is usually one of the main parts of a sentence and that expresses an action, an occurrence, or a state of being
In the sentence, "Jill ran across her yard," ran would be the verb. |
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a word that describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a sentence and that is often used to show time, manner, place, or degree
In the phrase, "he arrived early," early is the adverb because it is modifying the verb "arrived" |
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a word that describes a noun or a pronoun
The tired boy came home and complained about having to go to sports practice that night, for he was very tire. ~ tired is the adjective describing boy |
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a word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words ~ common conjunctions are “and,” “but,” and “although.”
The girl was tired, but she still wanted to go shopping. |
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a spoken word, phrase, or sound that expresses sudden or strong feeling
OWWW!!! That hurt! "OWWW" is the interjection. |
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word or group of words that is used with a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, location, or time, or to introduce an object
The book is under the table.~under is the preposition {under the table is the prepositional phrase} |
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the marks (such as periods and commas) in a piece of writing that make its meaning clear and that separate it into sentences, clauses, etc
The young girl and her older older brother have a wonderful, heartwarming realtionship. <---The period at the end of the sentence is a punctuation mark |
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n~ a doctrine or system of moral conduct
The decision may be legally justified, but question its morality |
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