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17 Cards in this Set
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person, place, thing, idea
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Noun
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person, place thing, idea, but doesn't say which particular one
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Common Noun
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a particular person, place, or thing and always begins with a capital letter
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Proper Noun
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names whatever exists as a physical or material substance
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Concrete Noun
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names a quality, state, activity, or general idea
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Abstract Noun
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names a group and is singular in form
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Collective Noun
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two or more words used as a single noun
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Compound Noun
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a convenient term that refers to any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun; for example, a pronoun, a verbal phrase, a noun clause, etc.
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Substantive
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a noun or pronoun that tells who or what the sentence is about
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Subject
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a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames or explains the subject
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Predicate Nominative
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Linking Verbs
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am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, taste, feel, smell, sound, look, appear, become, seem,grow, remain, stay
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a noun or pronoun that completes a prepositional phrase
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Object of a Preposition
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a noun or pronoun that follows an action verb and receives the action from that verb. It answers the whom or what after the verb.
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Direct Object
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a noun or pronoun that precedes the direct object and tells to whom or for whom or to what or for what the action of the verb is done.
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Indirect Object
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a noun or an adjective or the equivalent of either that renames or describes the direct object
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Objective complement
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a word that follows a noun and eplains or identifies that noun
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Appositive
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an appositive with all it's modifiers
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Appositive phrase
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