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| a person, place, thing, idea, or emotion |
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| use to take place of noun |
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| used to refer to specific pronouns |
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| used to show unspecific number of nouns |
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| for a personal pronoun ask yourself... |
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| cani replace this w/ a singular name? |
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| used to show an action or a state of being |
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am,is,are,was,were,be,being,been,
have,has,had
do,does,did
can,could
why,would
shall,should
may,might,must |
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| descries,modify, or limit a noun or pronoun HIS HER |
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| used to modify, descrie, or limit a verb, adjective and other adverbs |
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| what questions to adverbs ask? |
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| how,when,where,and to waht degree |
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| a word that is used w/ a noun or pronoun to form a prepositional phrase |
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| a preposition goes with.. |
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| other words to make a phrase. |
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| used to connect words,phrases,or clauses |
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| used to show surprise or emotion |
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| two complete sentences that are connected together by a conjuction. use a comma and conjection to separate independent clauses in a sentence. |
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| introductory words, phrases, or clauses |
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| any word or group of words coming before the main part of a sentence. use a comma to set off an introductory word,phrase,or clause from the main part of the sentence |
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| how do you know if it is a dependent clause or introductory word or phrase? |
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| cover up the first word of the sentence. is there now a sentence before the comma? this is a dependent clause . if not a sentence, its an introductory word or phrasae. |
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| any word or group of words that interrupt or split the main sentence. use commas to set off interrupting words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence. |
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| any word or group of words that further name the noun that is follows. RENAME. an appositive needs to be seperated from the rest of the sentence w/ commas |
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| how do you know if its a interrupter or appositive? |
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| take out the phrase before the appositive. does the sentence make sense. if so, its a appositive bc it renames |
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| and or but nor so for yet |
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| the noun the pronoun refers back to |
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