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| a noun is a word used to name a person a place a thing or an idea |
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| a compound noun is two or more words used together as a single noun. the parts of a compound noun may be written as one word, as seperate words or as hyphenated words |
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| a collective noun is a word that names a group |
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| common nouns and proper nouns |
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| a common noun names any one group of persons,places,things or ideas. a proper noun names a particular person,place,thing or idea. proper nouns always begin with a captital letter.common nouns begin with a captital letter only at the beginning of a sentence |
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| names a oersin okace or thing that can be perxeived by one or more of the senses(sight,hearing,taste,touch, or smell) |
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| names an idea a feeling a quality or a characrteristic |
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| a word used in place of one noun or more than one noun |
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| a personal pronoun refers to the one speaking(first person) the one spoken to(second person)or the one spoken about(third person) |
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| refers to the subject and directs the action of the verb back to the subject |
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| emphasizes a noun or another pronoun. |
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points out a person, a place, a thing,or an idea
this that these those |
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introduces a question
what which who whom whose |
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introduces a suborinate clause
that which who whom whose |
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| refers to a peson, a place , or a thing that is not specifically named |
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| an adjective is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun |
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| the most frequently used adjective are a an and the |
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| is formed from a proper noun and begins with a captital letter |
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| a verb is a word used to express action or stae of being |
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| may express physical or mental action |
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| an action verb that expresses an action directed towards a peron or thing |
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| expresses action(or tells something about the subject) without passing the action to a receiver |
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| links or connects the subject with the noun, a pronoun, or an adjective in the predicate |
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| consists of main verb preceded by at least one helping verb( also called an auxiliary verb) |
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| is a word used to modify a verb,an adjective,or another adverb |
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| a word used to show the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence |
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| the prepositon, the objects, and its modifers of the object |
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| is a word used to join words or a group of words |
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| connects words or groups of words used in the same way |
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| is a prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or a pronoun |
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| is a noun or a pronoun that receives the actiob of the verb or shows the result of the action. a direct object tells what or whom after an action verb |
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| is a noun or pronoun that comes between the action verb and the direct object and tells to what or for what or for whom the action of the verb is done |
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| is a noun or pronun that follows a linking verb and identifies the subject or refers to it |
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| i an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject |
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| a group of related words that is used as a single part of speech and does not contain a verb and its subject |
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| includes a prepostion, a noun or a pronoun called the object of the preposition,a nd any modifers of that object |
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| is a prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb |
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| is a form of a verb used as a noun, an adjective, or sn adverb. there are three kinds of verbals: the participle, the gerund, and the infinitive |
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| is a verb form that can be used as an adjective |
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| consists of a participle and all of the words related to the particles. the entire phrase is used as an adjective |
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| is a verb form ending in -ing that id used as a noun |
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| consists of a gerund and all the words related to the gerund |
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is a verb form that can be used as a noun, adjective, or an adverb. an infinitive usually begins with to
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| consists of an infinitive and its modifiers and complements |
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| is a noun or a pronoun placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it |
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| consist of an appositive and its modifiers |
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