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| a way of thinking about language |
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| The four levels of traditional grammar |
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| parts of speech, parts of sentence, phrases, clauses |
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| the eight kinds of words in English |
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| noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, interjection |
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| the name of a person, place, or thing |
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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 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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| me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them |
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| a word that modifies a noun or pronoun |
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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 |
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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 modifies an adjective, verb, or another adverb |
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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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| and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet |
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| List a few subordinating conjunctions |
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| as, if, 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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| a word that shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence |
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| a word that shows emotion but has no grammatical function |
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