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19 Cards in this Set
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noun
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names a person, place, thing, or idea
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adjective
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modifies a noun or a pronoun and answers these questions: which? what kind of? how many?
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adverb
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modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb and answers these questions: when? where? how? how much? why?
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pronoun
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is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns
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preposition
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shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence
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interjection
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expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence
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verb
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expresses an action or a state of being
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conjunction
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joins words or groups of words (phrases or clauses)
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difference between linking,helping and action verbs
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linking-doesnt show action and connect subject of verb for more information about subject.
helping-come before main verb in sentence. action-tell that something is happening or will happen. |
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difference between transitive and intransitive verbs
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transitive-are action verbs that have an object to recieve that action.
intransitive-are active verbs unlike transitive they do not have an object recieving action. |
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types of sentences
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exclamatory,interrogative and imperative
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italics
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books,plays,films
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quotations
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short stories,poems and articles
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apostrophe
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singular,plural and regular nouns
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rhyme scheme
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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in poem or verse
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solioquy
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speech delivered by character when he/she is on stage,characters reveal thoughts,intentins
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aside
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a characters comment which is another character from the audience, which isnt heard by other characters.
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epic similie
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extended comparisons between heroic or epic events
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homeic epithet
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consists of a compound adjective ,joined by hypen and regularly used to modify noun.
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