Magic Lens Go Back Levels 1-4

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Grammar

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A way of thinking about language

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The four levels of grammar

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parts of speech, parts of sentence, phrases, clauses

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Parts of speech

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The eight kinds of words in English

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Noun

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The name of a person, place, thing, or idea

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Pronoun

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A word that takes the place of a noun

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Subject pronouns

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Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements

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List the subject pronouns

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I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they

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Object pronouns

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pronouns used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions

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List the object pronouns

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me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them

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Adjective

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A word that modifies a noun or pronoun

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Article

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The three adjectives a, an, and the

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Definite article

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the adjective "the"

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Indefinite articles

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the adjectives a and an

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Three degrees of adjectives

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positive, comparative, superlative

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Verb

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A word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement

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Conjunction

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A word that joins two words or two groups of words

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List all the coordinating junctions

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and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

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List a few subordinationg conjunctions

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if, as, since, when, because

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the correlative conjunctions

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either or, neither nor, not only but also

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Preposition

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shows the relationship betwen its object and another word in the sentence

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Interjection

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Shows emotion but has no grammatical function

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Antecedant

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A noun that goes before and is later replaced by its pronoun

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Sentence

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A group of words that has a subject and its predicate, and makes a complete thought

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Fragment

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An incomplete thought

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Subject

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The noun or subject pronoun that the sentence is about

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Predicate

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The simple predicate is the verb

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Direct Object

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The noun or object pronoun that receives the action of the action verb

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Indirect Object

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

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Subject Complement

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

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Predicate Nominative

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A subject complement that is a noun or pronoun

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Predicate Adjective

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A subject complement that is an adjective

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Phrase

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A group of words that does not have a subject and its predicate

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Prepositional Phrase

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A phrase beginning with a preposition, used as a modifier

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Appositive

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An interrupting definition

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Verbal

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A verb used as a noun, adjective, or adverb

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The three kinds of verbals

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Gerunds, participles, and infinitives

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Gerund

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An -ing verb form used as a noun

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Participle

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A verb form used as an adjective

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Infinitive

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The to- form of the verb, used as a noun or modifier

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Clause

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A group of words that has a subject and its predicate

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Independant clause

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A clause that is a complete thought

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Dependant clause

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A clause that is not a complete thought, but needs to be connected to an independant clause.

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The four clause structures

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Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

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Simple sentence

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A sentence with one independant clause

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Compound sentence

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A sentence with two or more independant clauses

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Complex sentence

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A sentence with an independant clause attached to a dependant clause

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Compound-complex sentence

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A sentence with a compound structure and a complex structure

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The four sentence purposes

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declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory

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Declarative sentence

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A sentence that declares or makes a statement

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Imperative sentence

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A sentence that is imperious, that makes a command

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Interrogative sentence

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A sentence that interrogates, that asks a question

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Exclamatory sentence

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A sentence that exclaims, that has an exclamation point