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Grammar Review A Brief Review of the Parts of Speech
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NOUN Definition: A person, place, thing or idea Types: common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective Examples: cat (common), Mr. Jones (proper), apple (concrete), love (abstract), audience (collective)
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PRONOUN Definition: A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns Types: personal, reflexive, intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative Examples: I, you, he, her (personal), myself, yourself (reflexive & intensive), this, that (demonstrative), what, which (interrogative), all, any (indefinite), who, which (relative)
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ADJECTIVE Definition: A word that is used to modify/specify a noun or pronoun Types: articles, demonstrative, common, proper Examples: a, an, the (articles), this, these (demonstrative), red, busy (common), Hawaiian, Thanksgiving (proper)
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VERB Definition: A word that expresses either physical or mental activity Types: action, linking, helping, main, transitive, intransitive Examples: run, speak (action), he is happy (linking), they were silent (helping), he did it (main), she waved at him (transitive), she waved (intransitive)
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ADVERB Definition: A word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb Explains: where, when, how, how often, how long, how much Examples: inside (where), later (when), easily (how), always (how often), forever (how long), extremely (how much)
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CONJUNCTION Definition: A word that joins words or word groups Coordinating: (FANBOYS) for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Correlative: both…and, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also, whether…or
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PREPOSITION Definition: A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word Examples: on, under, next to, except, since REMEMBER: Anywhere a cat can go, or anything a bunny can do with a hill.
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INTERJECTION Definition: A word that is used to express emotion; usually does not have any grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence Examples: Aha! Hey! Ouch! Oh! Yikes! Yippee! Wow!
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