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The "job "of a verb is to show action or state of a sentence.
Example Verbs: be, have, do, like,work,sing, can, must
Example Sentence:
I like to play football with all my friends.
Like is the verb in the sentence because it is an action. |
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A common noun is a person place or thing.
Examples of a common noun are: Dog, teacher, town
Example sentence: The dog ran through the yard.
The common noun in the sentence is dog. |
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A proper noun is the name of a specific person place or thing.
Example of a proper noun: A English Bulldog, Flowery Branch, Mrs. Holland |
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A adjective describes a noun
Example of an adjective is: a, an, the, some, big
Example sentence: My neighbor's dog is big. |
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The"job" of an adverb is to describe the verb,adjective or adverb.
Examples of adverbs : quickly, silently,well,very,really
Example sentence with an adverb:
My neighbor's big dog barks loudly at my cat everytime he sees her. |
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The "job" of a pronoun is to replace a noun
Example of a pronoun: I, you, she,some
Example sentence: Cody and I went to the football game last friday.
I is replacing my name therefor it is a pronoun |
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The "job" of a preposition is to link another word
Examples of a preposition are: to, at , after, on but
Example Sentence: Our class weent to the bookfair last week. |
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The "job" of an conjunction is to join clauses or sentences together
Example conjunctions: and,but, when
Example sentence: Aaron likes Chic-fil-a and Arbys. Cody likes Arby's but not Chic-fil-a. |
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