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30 Cards in this Set
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A word used to name a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Noun
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Names a class of things.
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Common Nouns
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Singular _____ that name a group.
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Collective Nouns
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Names a specific person, place, or thing.
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Proper Nouns
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Name people, places, or things that can be perceived through one or more of the senses.
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Concrete Nouns
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Names an idea, feeling, a quality or a characteristic.
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Abstract Nouns
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Consists of two or more words that together name an idea, a person, a place or a thing. These are sometimes one-word, sometimes two-word, or sometimes hyphenated.
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Compound Nouns
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A word used in place of one or more nouns.
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Pronoun
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Refers to people, either first-person, second-person, or third-person.
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Personal Pronouns
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Refers to a person, place, thing, or idea that may or may not be specifically named.
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Indefinite Pronouns
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A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it
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Adjective
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A word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence.
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Prepositions
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Help point out different relationshipsa and they also introduce a phrase.
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Prepositions
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Starts with the preposition and ends with the object and includes anything in between.
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Prepositional Phrase
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The noun or pronoun ending the prepositional phrase is known as this.
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Object
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A word that expresses action or helps to make a statement.
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Verb
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Verbs that express an action the subject o the sentence does.
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Action Verb
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Form a connection between two statements and also express states of being.
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Linking Verbs
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A verb phrase that consists of at least one main verb and one or more helping verbs.
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Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
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Has an object-a word that tells who or what receives the action.
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Transitive Verbs
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Does not have an object.
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Intransitive Verbs
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A word that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. Most of these end in "LY"
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Articles
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A word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another verb.
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Adverb
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What enhance the meaning of the words they modify by telling how, when, where, or what extent.
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Adverbs
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Introduces a prepositional phrase.
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Prepositions
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Join words or groups of words.
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Conjunctions
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Join equal parts of a sentence.
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Coordinating Conjuntions
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These are used in pairs. More than one word.
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Correlative Conjunctions
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Creates a subordinate part of a sentence.
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Subordinating Conjunctions
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A word that expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the other words.
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Interjection
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