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The Building Blocks of Writing
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English
12th Grade
01/25/2013

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NOUNS
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are often thought of as referring to persons,places,things,states,or qualities
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VERBS
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may be inflected for tense,aspect,voice,mood,and to show agreement with their subject or object
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ADJECTIVES
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pertaining to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival
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ADVERBS
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typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means
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PRONOUNS
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are sometimes formally distinguishe from nouns

 

by th existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for i, and by

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PREPOSITIONS
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to position in advance or beforhand: to preposition troops in anticipatd trouble spots
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CONJUNCTIONS
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the state of being conjoined; union; association: The police, in conjunction with the army, established order
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INTERJECTIONS
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the act of interjection

something interfected, as a remark

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NOUN PHRASE
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as all the men in the room who are readinng books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun
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VERB PHRASE
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a phrase consisting of a main verb and any auxiliaries but not including modifiers, objects, or complements
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VERBAL PHRASE
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expressed in spoken words; oral rather than written: verbal commuication; verbal agreement
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
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a phrase conisting of a proposition
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MEANING
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what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three word meanings of a word
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STRUTURE
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anything composed of parts arrangd together in some way; an organization
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