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Noun |
Person, place, thing, or idea. |
Teacher, city, desk, democracy |
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Pronoun |
Substitute for nouns |
He, they, ours, those |
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Adjective |
Describes a noun |
Warm, quick, tall, blue |
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Verb |
Expresses action or state of being |
Yell, interpret, feel, are |
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Adverb |
Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb |
Slowly, well, busily. |
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Conjunctions |
Join words, sentences, and phrases |
And, but, or |
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Preposition |
Shows position in time or space |
In, during, after, behind |
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Phrase |
Is any group of related words that has no subject or predicate and that is used as a single part of speech. Phrases may be built around prepositions, articles, gerunds, or infinitives, but they can not stand by themselves as sentences |
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Antecedent of the pronoun |
Is a noun to which a pronoun refers. A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender, person, and number. the pronoun generally refers to the nearest noun. |
"since the mouth of the cave was masked by underbush, it provided an excellent hiding place." This is incorrect, because "it" refers to the underbrush, not the intended antecedent "cave". You must find that most effective way to clear up an ambiguity is to revise the sentence so the pronoun is not used |
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Pronouns and nouns have 3 cases: SUBJECT |
The subject, noun/pronoun of address, or predicate noun/ pronoun. |
Examples of subjective pronouns I, he, she, we, and they |
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Pronouns and nouns have 3 cases: 2 OBJECTIVE |
The direct object, indirect object, object of preposition. |
Examples of object pronouns include me, him, her, us, and them |
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Pronouns and nouns have 3 cases: 3 POSSESSIVE |
The form that shows position |
Examples of position pronouns include Mine, his, hers, ours, and theirs |
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Three cases of pronoun and noun |
Subjective, Objective, and Possessive |
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Helping verbs |
Helping verbs combine the main verb to form a verb phrase, such as is going or has worked. |
Do, does, did; have, has, had; will, would, could, should; can, may; must |
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Linking verbs |
Connect the subject with a word that describes or identifies it, |
Charlene is a good worker. The main linking verb is the verb, to be, and its forms: are, am, is, was, were, been. |
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Other linking verbs |
Appear, become, continue, feel, grow, Look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste, and turn |
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Verbs have four principal parts |
Present (bake) present participle (baking) past participle(baked) Past (baked) |
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Basic Rule of Sentence Structure |
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Conjunctions and Prepositions |
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Rules of agreement |
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