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24 Cards in this Set
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Adjective
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descriptive word that modified a noun or pronoun
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adverb
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a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb and indicates when, how, where, why, or how much
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article
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word that is used to limit a noun, either indefinite (a and an) or definite (the)
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Clause
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a group of words that are related and contain both a subject and a verb
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direct object
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the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb and answers the question whom or what
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noun
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a word for a person, place, or thing
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object of the preposition
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the noun, pronoun, phrase, or clause to which the preposition refers
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phrase
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a group of words that are related but do not contain a verb and a subject together
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possesive pronoun
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a pronoun used to indicate ownership
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preposition
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a word such as by, at, to, or from that gives additional information, usually in relationship to something else in the sentence
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pronoun
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a word that replaces and refers to a noun
singular I, me, mine, my, you, your, yours, he, she , him her, it, hers, his, its plural we, us, our, ours, you , your, yours, they, them, their, theirs |
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subject
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a noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb
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verb
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a word that shows an action or a state of being
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first person
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singular - mine my
plural - our, ours |
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second person
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singular - your, yours
plural - your, yours |
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third person
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singular - her, hers, his, its
plural - their, theirs |
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antecedent
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what a pronoun is referring back to
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attributive tag
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what goes before the quotation marks
alex said, "eljhsdjg" |
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point of view
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the perspective from which an author writes
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first person
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I, my
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second person
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using the pronoun you
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coordinating conjunctions
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words that join two or more words, phrases, or clauses
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so |
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subordinating conjunctions
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word that joins two or more clauses that makes the clause that contains it dependent on another clauses
because, though, although, as, ,as if, when, while |
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simple sentence
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contains only one clause that has a complete meaning
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