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Noun
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Names a person, place, thing, idea (Lulu, jail, cantaloupe, loyalty, and so on)
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Pronoun
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Takes the place of a noun (he, who, I, what, and so on)
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Verb
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expresses action or being (scrambled, was, should win, and so on)
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Adjective
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describes a noun or pronoun (messy, strange, alien, and so on)
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Adverb
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describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb (willingly, woefully, very, and so on)
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Preposition
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relates a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence (by, for, from, and so on)
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Conjunction
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ties two words or groups of words together (and, after, although, and so on)
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Interjection
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expresses strong emotion (yikes! wow! ouch! and so on)
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Verb (also called the predicate):
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Expresses the action or state of being
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Subject
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The person or thing being talked about
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Complement:
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a word or group of words that completes the meaning of the subject-verb pair.
Types of complements: direct and indirect objects, subject complement, objective complement. |
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Pronouns that may be used only as subjects or subject complements:
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I, he, she, we, they, who, whoever.
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Pronouns that may be used only as objects or objective complements:
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me, him, her, us, them, whom, whomever.
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Common pronouns that may be used as either subjects or objects:
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You, it, everyone, anyone, no one, someone, mine, ours, yours, theirs, either, neither, each, everybody, anybody, nobody, somebody, everything, anything, nothing, something, any, none, some, which, what, that.
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Pronouns that show possession:
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my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs, whose.
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The Different Types of Pronouns:
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Demonstrative Pronouns: helps to demonstrate, This, that, these and those
Indefinite Pronouns: used for non-specific things, All, some, any, several, anyone, nobody, each, both, few, either, none, one and no one Interrogative Pronouns: used in question, Who, which, what, where and how. Personal Pronouns: nouns that represent people, I, you, he, she, it, we, they, and who Possessive Pronouns: pronouns are used to show possession, My, your, his, her, its, our and their Relative Pronouns: add more information to a sentence, Which, that, who (including whom and whose) and where. Reflexive Pronouns: myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves and themselves. |
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Modal auxiliaries:
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can/could, will/would, shall/should, may/might, must
(helps us to indicate modality of different levels. They are used to make requests, offers, suggestions or to express a level of (un) certainty) |
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compounds
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be able to, be allowed to, be bound to, be going to,
had better, had rather, have to |
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finite
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limited in number or magnitude
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indefinite
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specific, explicit, certain
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