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| A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea |
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| A word that shows an action, occurrence, or state of being or it links the subject to its complement. It can change tense depending on time. |
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| A word that modifies a noun or pronoun; specifies a thing as distinct from something else; answers Which one? What kind? How many? How much? |
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| A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb; it tells how, when, where, why, or to what extent or degree. |
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| A word that joins together other words or groups of words |
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| A word that combines with a noun phrase (its object) to form a phrase that modifies another word in the sentence |
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| A word, phrase, or sound that expresses sudden or strong feeling and that serves no modifying or connecting purpose |
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| A word used as a substitute for a noun |
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| The who or the what a sentence is about; it is the person, place, thing, or idea that is acting or being. |
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| A verb that expresses physical or mental action |
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| A verb that links the subject of the sentence to a word in the predicate that renames or describes it. |
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| A noun, pronoun, or adjective that renames or describes the subject |
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| A noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb; it tells whom or what about the verb |
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| A noun or pronoun that receives the direct object; it tells to whom or to what, for whom or for what |
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| A pronoun’s referent that is named or understood within the text |
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| A specific person, place, or thing (like Kobe Bryant, Janesville or Chevrolet Traverse) that is always capitalized |
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| Any of a class of people, places, or things (like athlete, city, or car) |
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| A, an, the: This special class of adjective comes before a noun and is often called a noun determiner. |
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| This kind of pronoun points to the noun it replaces. Examples include this, that, these, those. |
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| This kind of pronoun is used to ask questions. Examples include who, whose, whom, what, which, whomever, whatever. |
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| This kind of pronoun refers to unspecified things. Examples include any, all, another, each, anyone, anything, anybody, nobody, everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, few, many. |
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| This kind of pronoun links--or relates--one clause or phrase to another. Examples include who, whoever, whomever, that, which. |
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| An action verb that shows the subject doing the action |
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| An action verb that shows the subject passively being acted on |
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| A conjunction that joins equals; it joins--or coordinates--words, phrases, or clauses of equal importance |
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| subordinating conjunction |
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| A conjunction that joins unequals; it joins something of lesser importance with something of greater importance. |
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| When a pronoun is used as a subject: I, We, You, He, She, It, They, Who |
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| When a pronoun is used as an object: me, us, you, him, her, it, them, whom |
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