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| is a sentence that runs into another sentence. Two or more parts of a run-on sentence can stand by itself. |
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| is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. |
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| Grammarians have developed a whole series of noun types, including...(6) |
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1. Common noun
2. Concrete noun.
3. Abstract noun.
4. Countable noun (count noun)
5. Non-countable noun (mass noun)
6. Collective noun. |
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| is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense. |
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| You always write a proper noun with a capital letter, since the noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or thing. |
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| is a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can perceive through your physical senses: touch, sight, taste, hearing, or smell. |
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| (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) that you can count. |
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| (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count, such as, oxygen, furniture or gravel. |
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| is a noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons, such as, flock, jury, committee or class. |
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| A verb or compound verb asserts |
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| something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. |
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| You construct a compound verb out of |
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| a helping verb and another verb. |
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| The most common helping verbs are: |
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| have, had, were, is, are, been, will, would, could, should, may, might, do, and does. |
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| A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. |
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| An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. |
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| indicate manner, time, placed, cause, or degree and answer questions such as "how," "when,""where," "how much". |
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| verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. |
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| You can use a conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses. |
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| You use a cooralnating conJunction (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet) to Join Indivldual words, phrases, and independent clauses. |
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| The most common subordinating conjunctions are: |
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| after, although, as, because, before, how, if, once, since, than, that, though, until, when, where, whether, and while. |
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| always appear in pairs -- you use them to link equivalent sentence elements. |
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| The most common correlative conjunctions are: |
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| both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also, so...as, and Whether...or. |
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is a word that shows the relation between two or more things.
It links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. |
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| Some common prepositions are: |
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| at, under, over, of, to, in, out, beneath, beyond, for, among, after, before, within, down, up, during, without, with, outside, inside, beside, between, by, on, out, from, until, toward, throughout, across, above, about, around. |
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| An adjective, which may describe or limit a noun or pronoun, answers the following questions: |
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1. Which one? his daughter, that man, my dog.
2. What kind? dark suit, beautiful lady, sunny day.
3. How many? ten children, both people, several students. |
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