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35 Cards in this Set
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What is a noun?
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a person, place, thing, or idea
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Give an example of a noun
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student, college, textbook, education
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What is a PROPER noun?
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names of specific people, places, or things (first letter always capitalized)
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Give an example of a PROPER noun.
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Will Smill, Buick, Kleenex
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What is a COMMON noun?
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general groups, places, people or things
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Give an example of a COMMON noun.
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singer, city, telephone
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What is a CONCRETE noun?
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things experienced through the senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch
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Give an example of a CONCRETE noun.
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landsape, pizza, thunder, lightening
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What is an ABSTRACT noun?
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things not knowable through the senses.
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Give an example of an ABSTRACT noun.
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freedom, shyness
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What is a COLLECTIVE noun?
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groups of nouns
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Give an example of a COLLECTIVE noun.
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Family, team
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What is a NONCOUNT noun?
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'uncountable' things
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Give an example of a NONCOUNT noun.
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beef, dirt
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What is a COUNT noun?
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countable items singular or plural. eg. lake (lakes), minute (minutes)
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What is a pronoun?
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It stand for or refers to a noun.
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The word or words a pronoun replaces are:
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antecedents
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What is a PERSONAL pronoun?
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It refers to people or things
I, you, they, her, it's, ours.... |
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What is a RELATIVE pronoun?
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Introduces certain NOUN CLAUSES and ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
who, which, that |
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What is an INTERROGATIVE pronoun?
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Introduces a question
who, whose, what, which... WHO called? |
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What is a DEMONSTRATIVE pronoun?
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Points out the antecedent
this, these, that, those Whose books are THESE? |
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What is a REFLEXIVE, INTENSIVE pronoun?
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It refers to or intensifies the antecedent
myself, themselves, and other -self or selves words |
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What is a RECIPROCAL pronoun?
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It refers to individual parts of a plural antecedent
each other, one another |
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What is a INDEFINITE pronoun?
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It refers to nonspecific person or things
all, anyone, each,... |
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What types of pronouns are there?
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Personal, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive-intensive, reciprocal, indefinite
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What is a MAIN verb?
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They express action, occurrence, or state of being
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What is a verbal?
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Verb parts that function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs
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What is an INFINITIVE VERBAL?
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to + simple verb
TO EAT soon is our goal. |
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What is a PAST PARTICIPLE verbal?
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-ed for of regular verb or equivalent of irregular verb
Boiled, filtered water is usually safe to drink. |
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What is a PRESENT PARTICIPLE verbal?
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-ing form of a verb
Running water may not be safe. |
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What is an adjective?
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It modifies, describes, or limits noun, pronouns, and word groups that function as nouns.
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What two types of adjectives are there?
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Descriptive (green, leafy)
Proper (Canadian, Victorian) |
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What are DETERMINERS?
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limiting adjectives, they tell whether a noun is general (a tree) or specific (the tree), which one (this tree) , how many (twelve trees), whose (our tree), etc.
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What are the types of DETERMINERS?
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Articles (a, an, the), Demonstrative (this, these, that, those), Indefinite (any, each, few, other, some....), Interrogative (what, which whose), Numerical (first..), possessive (my, your, their), Relative (what, which, whose, whatever...)
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What is an adverb?
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It modifies, describes, or limits verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and clauses.
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