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Historical Structure of teh English Language
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Undergraduate 3
02/23/2010

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Determiners Articles
Definition
a/an/the
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Use specific determiners when..
Definition
people know exactly which things or person/people you are talking about
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Determiner demonstrative pronoun
Definition
This that these those
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determiner possessive pronoun
Definition
my, your, his, her, it's, our, their
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use General Determiners when..
Definition
we talk about people or things without saying exactly who or what they are
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determiner indefinite prounouns examples
Definition
a few, a little, both, each, either, few, fewer, less, a lot, neither, no, other
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Auxiliary verbs are ...
Definition
helping verbs used to assist the verb
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3 most common auxiliary verbs
Definition
do, does, did
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examples of auxiliary verbs
Definition
be, am, is, are, was, were, have, has had
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qualifiers
Definition
intensifies to alter the meaning of adjectives and adverbs (very, quite, rather, really, awfully
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coordinating conjunctions examples
Definition
and, but, or, yet, for, nor, so
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subordinating conjunctions
Definition
joins a subordinate clause to a main clause. (after, is, because, before, unless, until, while)
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correlative conjunctions definition
Definition
conjunctions which are in the form of pair of words
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correlative conjunction examples
Definition
either..or -
neither .. nor -
both..and -
weather..or -
not only..but also -
such ..as -
hardly ..when -
so that
between ... and-
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preposition definition
Definition
links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence
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preposition examples
Definition
on, about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below
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cardinal numbers (one, two, three) and ordinal numbers (first, second, third) are ...
Definition
determiners
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determiners always proceed ...
Definition
the noun they modify
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posessive nouns
Definition
john's, my son's - etc.
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personal pronouns
Definition
i, we, you, he, she, it, they
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