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What's a noun? |
a person place or thing |
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What's a compound personal pronoun? |
By adding -self or -selves to certain personal pronouns: first person: myself, ourselves. Second person: yourself, yourselves. Third person: himself, herself, itself, themselves. |
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What's a personal pronoun? |
Personal Pronouns- are used to take the place of nouns the name persons. Personal pronouns refer to persons in these three ways: First person- I, me, we, us. Second person- you, your, yours. Third person- he, his, she, her, it, they, their, them, for. |
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What's an adjective? |
Is a word that goes with, or modifies, a noun or pronoun. Adjective tell what kind, how many, how much, which one, or which ones. |
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What's an adverb? |
Adverbs are words that modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Adverbs are used to go with, or modify, verbs to tell how, when, where, or to what extent an action happened. |
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What's a Preposition? |
Is a word used with a noun or pronoun, called its object, to show the relationship between the noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. |
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Name all 3 articles. |
The, a, and an |
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What's a verb? |
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence. |
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What's a direct object? |
The direct object of a verb is the thing being acted upon (i.e., the receiver of the action). |
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What's an indirect object? |
The indirect object of a sentence is the recipient of the direct object. Every sentence must contain a verb. Most verbs have a direct object (the thing being acted upon). |
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What's a helping verb? |
Helping verbs are verbs that, as their name suggests, help the main verb in a sentence by extending the meaning of the verb. They add detail to how time is conveyed in a sentence. As a result, helping verbs are used to create the most complicated verb tenses in English. |
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What's a main verb? |
The verb in a main clause. |
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What's a proper noun? |
A name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with initial capital letters, e.g., Larry, Mexico, and Boston Red Sox. |
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What's a common noun? |
A common noun is the word for something (e.g., boy, cat, lake, bridge). It is different from a proper noun, which is the name we give to something (e.g., Peter, Lucky, Lake Superior, The London Bridge). |
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What are some preposition words? |
About, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but (except), by, concerning, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, since, through, to, toward, under, until, up, upon, with, within, without. |
