Midterms English 2009

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A word that names a person, place,thing or, idea.
Ex. musicians, studio, guitar, hope

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Noun

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A noun names a person, place or thing that can be sensed with one of thefive sences.

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Concrete Noun

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A noun names a person, place, or thing.
Ex teacher, school, calendar

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Common Noun

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A noun names a particular person, place or thing.
Ex. Mrs. Drinkard, Male High School, August

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Proper Noun

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A noun is a noun that includes more than one word.
They may contain two or more words.
Ex. Diningroom, babysitter,turtleneck

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Compound Noun

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A word that takes the place of one or more nouns.

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pronoun

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first person pronoun

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singular: I, me, my, mine
plural: we, us, our, ours

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second person pronoun

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singular: you, your, yours
plural: you,your, yours

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third person pronoun

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singular: he. him, his, she, her, hers, it,its
plural: they them their theirs

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pronoun are formed by added -self or -sevies to a personal pronoun

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reflexive and intenive

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reflexive ex.
The girl I babysit for finally learned to tie her shoes herself.

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intenive ex.
you yourself can come to the benefit dance tomorrow night.

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Pronouns refer to unamed people or things

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indfinite
ex. everyone anybody, everybody, anyone, someone ,somebody,sometimes, everything

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pronoun are use tpo point out specific people, place, or things.

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demonstrative
this, these,and those

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pronoun are used to ask questions

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interrogative
what, which, who, whom, and whose

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something that tells what the subjuct of the sentence is doing

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action verb

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a verb that has an object

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transitive verb

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a verb does not have an object

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intransitive verb

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A group of words that contains a main verb and one or more helping verbs

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verb phase

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helping verbs

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is, am, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, may, might, must, can, should, shall, will,and would.

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A verb or verb phase that like the subject with another word in the sentence

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linking verb

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A word that describes a noun or a pronoun

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adjective

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A word that begins with a captial letter and comes from a proper noun

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proper adjective

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A word that contains more than one word

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conpound adjective

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compares two things and adds -er to the adjective

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comparative

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A word that modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

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adverb
Adverb tells how , when,where, how much, and why

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A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence.

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preposition

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preposition

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on, in, to, into, with, under, beneath, for , upon, until, during, beside, by, inside, below, between, of, within, frm, onto, outside, above, about, across, beyond, off, without, after, against, along, among, around, at, down, on, before, behind, out , over, throught, throughtout, toward, up

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A word that joins other words or groups of words

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conjuntion
and, but, or, either, neither, nor

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hallowed

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sacred

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degenerate

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grow worse

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creed

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statement of belief

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ineritability

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quality of begin certain to happen

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potential

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possibility

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riddled

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affected throughout

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tenement

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apartment house often run down

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profound

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deep intense

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vigilant

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watchful

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dilapidated

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broken down

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paipable

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able to be felt easily perceived

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indolently

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lazily, idly

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scruple

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misgivings about something one feels is wrong

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futile

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useless, hopeless

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dissension

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difference of opinion, disagreement

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abomination

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anything hateful and disgusting

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reprieve

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temporary relief postponement of a penalty

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imminent

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likely to happen soon

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infallibility

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condition of not being likely to fail

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precariously

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insecurely

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prodigious

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enormous

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deleterious

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harmful to health or well being

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judicious

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showing good judgement

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placidly

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calmly, quietly

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desultory

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