English Grammar: Parts Of Speech

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Proper, common, concrete, abstract, collective.

Back 1

What are the five types of nouns?

Front 2

Proper: A name used for an individual place, person, or organization, spelled with capital letters.

capital letters.

Back 2

What is a proper noun?

Front 3

Common: a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual.

Back 3

What's a common noun?

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Concrete: a noun that can be identified through one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, or smell).

Back 4

What is a concrete noun?

Front 5

Is a noun that cannot be perceived using one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smelling).

Back 5

What is an abstract noun?

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Adjective Clause

Back 6

•Dependent clauses that must be joined to independent clauses.

•Describes nouns and pronouns.

•Often placed in a sentence right after the noun they describe.

•Adds details to a sentence.

•Begin with one of the relative pronouns such as who, whom, whose, where, that, which, when, in.

Front 7

A, An, The.

Back 7

What are the three articles.

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Adverb Clause

Back 8

Is a subordinate (dependent clause) that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. It has a subject and a verb. It tells where, when, how, why, to what extent or under what condition.

Examples:

1. You may sit wherever you wish.

2. When spring break sets in, many students go crazy.

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Conjunctions

Back 9

This joins clauses together. It consists of joining words.

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Coordinating Conjunction: FANBOYS

Back 10

Placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank.

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Subordinating Conjunction

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An adverb is introduced by a subordinating conjunction--a word that shows the relationship between the adverb clause and the word or words that the clause modifies.

After, although, as, as if, as long as, as soon as, because, before, how, if, in order that, since, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, whether.

Front 12

Preposition

Common Prepositions:

For, at, with, from, on, under, between, upon, to, above, in, into, up, toward, behind, off.

Back 12

Shows position or direction.

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Interjections

Common Interjections:

Wow! Oh, Huh? Ah.

Back 13

These are expressive words.

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Compound Subject

Back 14

Is a double subject: more than one noun or pronoun used as the subject of the same clause.

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Predicate

Back 15

Is the side of the sentence that says something about the subject.

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Verb.

Example: Eggworthy scrambled.

Back 16

The simple predicate is the?

Front 17

Compound Verb.

Example: Eggworthy scrambled the bowl of eggs and flipped the bacon.

Back 17

May be taken by the subject of the sentence.

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Direct Object

Back 18

A noun or object pronoun that recieves the action of the action verb.

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Transitive

Back 19

When there is a direct object, we call the action what?

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Intransitive

Back 20

When the action verb does not act on a direct object, we call the action verb what?

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Indirect Objects

Back 21

A noun or object pronoun that is indirectly affected by the action verb, and that is located between the action verb and the direct object.

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Subject Complements

Back 22

A noun, subject pronoun, or adjective that is linked to the subject by a linking verb and tells more about the subject.

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Predicate Nominative

Back 23

Is a subject complement that is a noun or subject pronoun.

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Predicate Adjective

Back 24

Is a subject complement that is an adjective.

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Compound Subject

Back 25

Is made up of two nouns comnected by a joining word.

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Compound Sentence

Back 26

Is made up of two or more complete thoughts.

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Complex Sentence

Back 27

Is made up of one or more complete thoughts and another thought that begins with a dependent word like after, although, as, because, before, if, since, unless, until, when, where, and while.