Grammar

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Noun
A word naming a person, place, thing, or idea
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Common noun
General name
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Proper noun
Name of particular object
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concrete noun
name of something perceived by the senses
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abstract noun
name of idea, quality, or state
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singular noun
one person, place, thing, or idea
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Plural noun
more than one person, place, or things
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Collective Noun
Name of a group
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Compound Noun
Noun formed by two or more words
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Possessive Noun
Noun showing ownership
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Pronoun
Word used in place of a noun or pronoun
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Antecedent
word a pronoun stands for
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reflexive pronoun
reflects back upon the subject
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intensive pronoun
emphasizes a noun or pronoun
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demonstrative pronoun
points towards a specific noun or pronoun
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indefinite pronoun
refers to unidentified nouns or pronouns
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interrogative pronoun
introduces a question
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relative pronoun
introduces a subordinate clause
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verb
word expressing action, condition, or a state of being
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action verb
expresses physical or mental action
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transitive verb
action verb apearing with the direct object
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intransitive verb
action verb without a direct object
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Linking Verb
Links subject to predicate
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Auxiliary verbs/Helping Verbs
combined with verbs to form verb phrases
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Adjective
Modifiers of nouns and pronouns by telling what kind, how many, which one, or how much
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Indefinite Article
Adjectives referring to unspecified members of of groups of nouns or pronouns
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Definite Article
refers to a specific noun or pronoun
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Proper Adjective
Adjectives formed from proper nouns
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Adverb
Modifiers of verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs by answering where, when, how, or to what extent
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Intensifier
Adverb describing the degree of an adjective or adverb
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Declaratives Sentence
Makes a statement and ends with a period
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Interrogative sentence
Asks a question and ends with a question mark
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Imperative sentence
gives a command and ends with a period or exclamation point
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exclamatory sentence
expresses strong emotions and ends with an exclamation point
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inverted sentence
subject goes after the verb or is part of the verb phrase
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subject placement in a question
the subject goes after the verb or in the verb phrase
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subject placement in an imperative sentence
the subject is usually you and is implied
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Direct object
word or word group which receive the action of the verb, answering what or whom
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Indirecet Object
Answers to whom or for whom
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complements
complete meaning or action of verbs
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subject complents
words following linking verb and identify or describe subject
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predicate adjectives
subject complements which describe or modify the subject
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Predicate Nominatives
Subject complements which are nouns or pronouns which identify, rename, or define the subject
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Preposition
Shows the relationship btwn a noun and another word in the sentence
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Compound Prepositions
Prepositions prepositions formed by more than one word
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Prepositional Phrase
Word group consisting of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object
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Object of the preposition
noun or pronoun following the preposition
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conjunction
word that connects words or group of words
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coordinating conjunction
conjunctions connecting words or word groups with equal importance in a sentence
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correlating conjunction
pairs of conjunctions
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subordinating conjunction
introduces subordinate clause
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subordinate clause
clauses which cannot stand alone as complete sentences
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conjunctive adverb
express relationship btwn independent clauses
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independent clause
clause which can stand alone as its own sentence
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interjection
word phrase expressinf emotion or strong feeling, w mild interjections being followed by a comma, and strong interjections being followed by an exclamation point
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