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| the name of a person, place, thing or idea (democracy, truth, justice) |
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| a word that takes the place of a noun |
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| pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements |
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| List of the subject pronouns |
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I, you, he, she, it,
we, you, they |
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| pronouns used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions |
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| List of the Object Pronouns |
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me, you, him her, it,
us, you, them |
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a word that modifies a noun or pronoun
Answers questions: What kind? Which one? How many? How much?) |
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| the three adjectives, a, an, and the |
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| Three degrees of adjectives |
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positive, comparative, superlative
Ex. good, better, best
Ex. bad, worse, worst
Ex. fast, faster, fastest
beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful |
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modifies a verb, adjective or adverb.
(How? When? Where? To what extent? ) |
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| a word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement |
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| a word that joins two words or two groups of words |
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| List all the coordinating conjunctions |
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| Hint FANBOYS- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
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| List a few subordinating conjunctions |
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| if, as, since, when, because |
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| The correlative conjunctions |
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| either or, neither nor, not only, but also |
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| shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence (Silly rule: anything you can do to a cloud) |
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| shows emotions but has not grammatical function (Silly rule: the Batman words, oh, ugh, pow, wow, yes, no) |
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| First person pronoun, Second person pronoun, Third person pronoun |
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| refers to a specific person or thing by indicating the person speaking (the first person), the person being addressed (the second person), or any other person or thing being discussed (the third person.) |
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| refers to a noun or another pronoun and indicates that the same person or thing is involved. |
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| adds emphasis to a noun or another pronoun. Reflexive and intensive pronouns look alike. Their usage reveals the difference. |
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| Otto reminded himself not to forget the party. (Reflexive) |
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| Intensive pronoun-example |
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| Otto himself told me he was coming to the party. (Intensive) |
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used to form questions;
Interrogative pronouns are:
Who, Whom, Whose, What, Which; also can be: whoever, whomever, whatever, and whichever |
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used to begin a subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause.
Who Whom What Which That
Whoever Whomever Whatever Whichever Whose |
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point out specific persons, places, things, or ideas.
this, that, these, those |
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| refers to persons, places or things in a more general way than does a noun or personal pronoun. EX. Each of the winners chose his or her own prize. |
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