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32 Cards in this Set
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Nouns עצם
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Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.
Nouns can be grouped into five categories: (1) persons, (2) places, (3) things, (4) living creatures, and (5) ideas/concepts. |
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Pronouns שם עצם
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Pronouns are words that stand in for or replace nouns. There are nine categories of pronouns.
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Subject pronouns
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Subject (נושא) pronouns include: I, you, he, she, it, we, and they. Subject pronouns always function as subjects of a sentence.
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Objective pronouns
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Objective (מושא) pronouns include me, you, him, her, it, us, and them. Objective pronouns always function as objects in a sentence, for example, the direct object, the indirect object, or the object of a preposition.
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Indefinite pronouns
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Indefinite pronouns can function as either subjects or objects. Also, they can be singular or plural or both. The number of the pronoun determines the number of the verb to be used. Singular indefinite pronouns use singular verbs. Plural indefinite pronouns use plural verbs.exp: no one, every one, somebody, something, enything, each, both, none, all, any.
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Relative pronouns
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Relative pronouns include, most commonly, that, which, who, whom, whoever, whomever, and where. Relative pronouns introduce relative clauses.
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Demonstrative pronouns
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Demonstrative pronouns include This, That, These, and Those and can function as subjects, objects, and adjectives.
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Possessive pronouns
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Possessive pronouns are pronouns used to refer to subjects in sentences that are specific person/people or thing/things belonging to a person/people [and sometimes to an animal(s) or thing(s)]. Possessive pronouns function as subjects, objects, and adjectives. exp: mine and yours
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Interrogative pronouns
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Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions. These pronouns represent the thing that isn’t known (what the question is asking about). Interrogative pronouns can stand in for subjects.
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Reflexive and Intensive pronouns
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Reflexive pronouns function as objects in a sentence; they refer back to a noun or pronoun.
Intensive pronouns emphasize another noun or pronoun. |
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Adjectives תואר
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Adjectives are words you use to modify a noun or a pronoun.
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Descriptive adjective
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A descriptive adjective describes a quality of the noun the adjective modifies.
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Proper adjective
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A proper adjective is formed by using a proper noun.
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Predicate adjectives
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Predicate adjectives follow the noun and are connected to the noun by a linking verb.
The three article in English, a, an, and the (sometimes referred to as determiners) always function as adjectives in a sentence. |
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Verbs פועל
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A verb shows what the subject of a sentence does.
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Action verbs
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Action verbs, which make up the majority of verbs, show/demonstrate an action
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Linking or state of being verbs
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Linking or state of being verbs do not show an action. These verbs explain the condition someone or something is in.
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Helping or auxiliary verbs
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Helping or auxiliary verbs help describe the main verb. There are nine helping verbs :
May.Might.Must.Could.Would.Should.Can.Will.Shall Helping verbs add degrees of difference to the main verb allowing you to make subtle distinctions. Together, the helping verb and the main verb are called the complete verb. |
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Adverbs תואר הפועל
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Adverbs modify and describe verbs, adjective, and other adverbs.
Adverbs answer the question when? where? or in what manner? |
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Prepositions
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Prepositions are words that connect nouns and pronouns to other words and show the relationship between the words.
about,along ,behind ,beyond ,during ,inside ,off ,over ,to ,up,above,among ,below ,but ,except ,into ,on ,since ,toward ,upon,across,around ,beneath ,by ,for ,like ,onto ,through ,under ,with,after,at,beside,despite ,from ,near ,out ,throughout ,underneath ,within, against, before ,between ,down ,in ,of ,outside ,till ,until ,without A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun and includes any words that come in between the two. |
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Conjunctions מילות קישור
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Conjunctions are words that link other words in a sentence and indicate the relationship between those words. There are four types of conjunctions
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Coordinating conjunctions
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Coordinating conjunctions join words or word groups of equal importance.
Seven coordinating conjunctions: *FANBOYS* For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So |
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Correlative conjunctions
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Correlative conjunctions are word pairs that join words or words groups of equal importance:
•not only . . . but also •whether . . . or •both . . . and •not . . . but •either . . . or •as . . . as •neither . . . nor |
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Adverbial conjunctions
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Adverbial conjunctions join independent clauses, they tell the reader the relationship between the two main clauses.
Addition- in addition ,furthermore ,moreover ,further Emphasis-in fact ,indeed Comparison or Contrast- however ,nevertheless, nonetheless ,otherwise ,in contrast ,in comparison Cause or Effect- as a result ,consequently ,hence, therefore ,thus Time- finally ,meanwhile ,next |
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Subordinating conjunctions
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Subordinating conjunctions are a word or group of words that introduces a subordinate clause.
Cause or Effect- as ,because ,since Concession-though ,although ,even though ,even if Condition-if ,since ,unless ,when ,whenever Comparison or Contrast- while ,as , rather than Purpose- in order that ,so that Space or Time- before,since ,once ,after ,while ,when, until |
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Interjections
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Interjections, express surprise, emotion, or demand attention.
Amen! Wow! Hey! Absolutely! Bless you! Ouch! Damn! |
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Subject
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Words that identify the actor in a sentence or tell what/who a sentence is about.
Most of the time, you can find the subject/actor somewhere near the beginning of a sentence, usually in front of the verb . To locate a subject/actor, ask yourself who or what the sentence is about, you can ask ,who is doing the action the verb describes. |
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Types of subjects
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Nouns, pronouns, the understood "you" (please go to the store), gerunds (Driving is dangerous), infinitives (the preposition to + a verb, To fly was his dream).
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Verb
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Words that either describe what action the actor is doing or provide a link to the condition/state of being of the subject.
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Action verbs
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These verbs make up the majority of verbs. There are hundreds of these verbs.
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Linking verbs
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Linking verbs connect the subject of a sentence to additional information about the subject, such as the condition or state of being of the subject.If you can replace the verb in a sentence with the words am, is, or are, and the sentence still makes sense, then the verb is a linking verb. The linking verbs are
(only linking): be (and all its forms), become, seem (can also be action):feel, grow, look,appear, remain smell,sound, stay, taste, turn, prove |
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Helping or auxiliary verbs
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Helping or auxiliary verbs help describe the main verb. There are nine helping verbs that are always helping verbs; they are never the main verb. These are: May, Might,Must, Could, Would, Should, Can,Will, Shall
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