Language Development: Grammar

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Any word that donates a person place of thing

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Noun (or common noun)

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Describes a particular person, place, or thing and is spelled with a capital letter.

Ex) Tom, Disney World

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Pronoun

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A word that describes ownership of a person, place or thing
-has ('s) or (') [designates ownership]

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Possessive noun

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Words used in place of nouns
- described by the person or persons implied and how they are used in the sentence

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Personal pronoun

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this, that, these and those
-used to identify or specify a particular antecedent.

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Demonstrative Pronoun

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introduce the embedded clause in a complex sentence
- who, which, whom, whose, that

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Relative Pronoun

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A single word or group of words that expresses action or a state of being
-used to describe what a noun or pronoun does or what is being done

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Verb

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walk, eat, walks, eats, does, goes, has
-occurring now

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Present tense

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has (-ed) , drank, went
-describes an action that has occurred

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Past tense

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describes an action or state of being that will occur using will or shall

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Future tense

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washing, ringing, eating

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present progressive

Front 12

washed, rung, eaten

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past participle

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washed, rang, ate

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past

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I am tall.
-"be" verb by itself

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Copula verb

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I am growing tall.
-"be" verb with another verb

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Auxiliary verb

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Can, may, could, would, should

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Modal verbs

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The boy CLIMBED the tree.

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Verb

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I have six dollars.

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I = used as subject

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Mary likes Paul.
-ask what after verb

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Paul = direct object

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The dog gave Mary the toy.
-ask who after verb

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Mary = indirect object

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This is the table I want.
-when a noun follows a copula verb
-ask what and who questions

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Table = predicative nominative

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Part of speech that introduces a phrase

Ex) on

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Preposition

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noun following preposition

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object of preposition

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made up of a preposition and a noun
Ex) with red hair

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adjectival phrase

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made up of a preposition and a noun + modifier

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adverbial phrase

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looks like a verb, acts like a noun

To make good grades are my goals.

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to make = infinitive

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will always end in -ing

Walking daily is good exercise.

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walking = gerund

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The burnt food was no good.

The baby is tired.

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Burnt = participle
Tired = participle

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a single, independent clause which consists of a verb and a subject

Ex) i dove into the lake

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Simple sentence

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Mike and I enjoyed the movies.

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Simple sentence with a compound element.

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We ran and climbed a tree after school.

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Simple sentence with compound element double verb

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a sentence that consists of two independent clauses each having a subject and verb

Ex)Bob went to school and Paul stayed home

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Compound sentence

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consists of two clauses, one independent or main clause and one dependent clause.

Ex) Ill show you that I did.

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Complex sentence