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| concrete and abstract nouns |
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concrete: name a thing eg. chair, book, ipod
abstract: idea or feeling eg. beauty, sadness, anger, happiness |
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proper and collective nouns
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proper: names a person, place, thing, title or organisation eg. Robyn, England, Easterfest, Gateway Bridge
collective: a group of people, animals and objects eg. flock, heard, team, collection |
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Personal and relative pronouns
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personal: word that can be used in place of a noun eg. 1st person: i, we, me, us
2nd person: you, yourself and yourselves
3rd person: he, they, him, them
relative: who, which, that, whom, whose |
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describe or noun or pronoun in some detail
eg. energetic children |
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| add meaning to verbs, adjectives and other adverbs they can tell how, when and where something is done eg. i walked slowly, i walked yesterday, i walked there |
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doing words, a process in which people or things participate eg. ate, smelt
the infinitive is the name of the verb. can be recognised by putting the word to in frount of it eg. to play, to laugh |
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| helping verbs eg. be, have, will, shall, can, may, must, do |
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