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18 Cards in this Set
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Verb
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A very conveys an action or a state
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Subject
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A subject performs the action or exists in the state conveyed by the verb
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Noun
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A noun represents a person or a thing
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Subject pronoun
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A subject pronoun (I, he, she, you, they, etc) substitutes for a subject noun
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Adjective
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An adjective describes (modifies) a noun or pronoun
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Article
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An article is a word such as a or the that introduces a noun
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Definite article
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Definite article = the
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Indefinite article
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Indefinite article = a, an
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Possessive adjective
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Possessive adjectives (my, his, her, your, their, etc) modify nouns by indicating ownership or relationship
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Object
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The object of a verb is the person or thing affected by the action expressed by the verb
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Preposition
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Prepositions are used before nouns and can express spatial or temporal relationships (eg near, after)
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Partitive article
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The partitive article indicates an unspecified quantity of a mass noun, roughly equivalent to 'some'
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Mass noun
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A mass noun cannot be counted (eg sand, sugar)
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Count noun
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A count noun can be counted
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Demonstrative adjective
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Demonstrative adjectives point out a certain object or person (eg this, that)
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Adverb
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An adverb modifies a verb, i.e. it tells how something is done (eg Barbara talks fast, I write slowly)
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Direct object
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A direct object follows the verb without a preposition before it (the verb is acting directly on that object)
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Indirect object
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An indirect object is a noun indicating to whom or for whom an action is performed. There is a preposition (eg to or at) between the verb and the indirect object.
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