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3. Guess the part of speech. Nouns Asheville cats places hero things love Romeo and Juliet transformers people dishes pizza guilt idea George Bush

4. Nouns A noun is –a person, place, thing or idea A common noun –begins with a lower case letter –is a general term or name for an item A proper noun –begins with a capital letter –is a specific name

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6. Guess the part of speech. Pronouns it who what he herself themselves she those whom you each their all both this that

7. Pronouns A pronoun –takes the place of a noun Types of pronouns –Personal I, you, he, she, them, his, ours –Reflexive myself, yourself, himself, themselves –Relative That, which, who, whom, whose –Interrogative Which? Whose? What? Whom? Who? –Demonstrative This, that, these, those –Indefinite Each, either, neither, no one, much, any, everybody

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10. Guess the part of speech. Adjectives short tall lonely intelligent beautiful fancy foggy green nice handsome loud hateful sunny dainty crazy crisp color size quality appearance

11. Adjectives An adjective –modifies a noun (I have a green pen.) –modifies a pronoun (They are happy.) –Answers the following questions: Which one?How many?What kind? A proper adjective –is a proper noun used to describe another noun (American flag, Italian dressing, Shakespearean sonnet) The articles a, an, and the are actually adjectives

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13. Guess the part of speech. VERBS can laughing looks jump am think have said want tastes washed smile was seems Is

14. Verbs A verb –shows an action or helps to make a statement An action verb –shows action A linking verb –links two words together A helping verb –“helps” the main verb –comes before the main verb

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17. Guess the part of speech. Adverbs not very often so never calmly slyly frequently heroically lately too really hurriedly

18. Adverbs An adverb answers the following questions: –How?--Where? –When--To what extent? An adverb modifies –adjectives –verbs –other adverbs Not is always an adverb

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20. Guess the part of speech. Prepositions into behind through to from with inside above at of under out toward between around away from

21. Prepositions A preposition –shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence Location, location, location Relation, relation, relation The money changed hands under the table. The cow jumped over the moon.

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23. Guess the part of speech. Conjunctions both/and yet since and for nor not only/but also but after or so because

24. Conjunctions A conjunction –joins words, phrases, and clauses Types of conjunctions –Coordinating FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) –Subordinating Start dependent clauses (and therefore must be followed by a subject and verb). After, since, before, while, because, although, so that, if, when, whenever, as, even though, etc. –Correlative Not only/but also, neither/nor, either/or, both/and

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26. Guess the part of speech. Interjections wow bravo dang well duh hooray yippee drat yuck oh thanks

27. Interjections An interjection is a word that –shows excitement or emotion –is not grammatically connected to the rest of the sentence An interjection is punctuated with –an exclamation mark ! –or a comma,

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