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What is a noun?
A noun is the name of a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word used in the place of a noun.
What is a verb?
A verb is a word that does an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.
What is an adjective?
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun.
What do adjectives tell?
Adjectives tell
(1) What kind
(2) Which one
(3) How many, and
(4) Whose.
What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
What do adverbs tell?
Adverbs tell how, when, how often and to what extent.
What is a preposition?
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.
What is a conjunction?
A conjunction is a word that joins words or groups of words together.

(Examples - and, but, or.
What is an interjection?
An interjection is a word that expresses sudden or strong feeling.
What is a sentence?
A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What is a command?
A command is a sentence that gives an order or makes a request. A command sentence ends with a full stop or exclamation mark.
What is a complete predicate?
The complete predicate is the verb and other words that tell us what is said about the subject.

It is the part of the sentence in which the verb is found.
What is the complete subject?
The complete subject is the simple subject and other words that tell us who or what the sentence is about. it is the part of the sentence in which the simple subject is found.
What is a compound subject?
A compound subject is a subject with two or more parts that are joined by a conjunction.
What is a compound verb?
A compound verb is two or more verbs that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same subject.
What is a contraction?
A contraction is two words drawn together and shortened by dropping some letters. Every contraction has an apostrophe in it where the words were dropped.
What is the direct object?
The direct object is the noun or pronoun in the complete predicate that receives the action of the verb.
What is a direct qiotation?
A direct quotation is the exact words that someone says. they are always enclosed by quotation marks.
Exclamation
A sentence that shows sudden or strong feeling. An exclamation ends with an exclamation mark.
What are homonyns?
Homonyns are words that are spelled alike and pronounced alike but have different meanings.
What is an indirect quotation?
An indirect quotation is the content of what a person says without using his exact words. There are no quotation marks surrounding an indirect quotation.
What is the predicate adjective?
The predicative adjective is an adjective in the complete predicate that renames the subject.
What is the predicative nominative?
The predicative nominative is a noun or pronoun in the complete predicate that renames the subject.
What is a question?
A question is a sentence that asks something. A question always ends with a question mark.
What is the simple predcate?
The simple predicate is the main verb plus any helping verbs.
What is a statement?
A statement is a sentence that gives information. Statements always end with a period.
What are the four types of sentence?
The four types of sentence are statements, commands, questions or exclamations.
The list of pronouns.
I, me, my, mine.
You, your, yours.
He, she, him, her, it.
His, hers, its.
We, us, our, ours
They, them, their, theirs.
State of Being Verbs
Am, Is
Are, Was, Were.
Be, Being, Been
Helping Verbs
Am, Is
Are, Was, Were.
Be, Being, Been

Have, Has, Had.
Do, Does, Did.
Shall, Will, Should, Would, May, Might, Must.
Can, Could.
Linking Verbs
Am, Is
Are, Was, Were.
Be, Being, Been
Articles
A
An
The
Common Conjunctions
And, But, Or
Prepositions (part 1 of 2)
Aboard, about, above across.
After, against, among, around, at.

Before, behind, below, beneath.
Beside, between, beyond, by.

Down, during, except, for, from.
In, inside, into, like.
Prepositions (part 2 of 2)
Near, of, off, on, over.
Past, since, through, throughout.

To, toward, under, underneath.
Until, up, upon.
With, within, without.
The apostrophe has two main jobs.

First it stands in for a letter or group of letters which has been left out.
Wouldn't is short for would not.

I'm is short for I am.
Apostrophes. The second job of the apostrophe is to show the owner of something. There are four basic rules.

The apostrophe is added to the noun naming the owner.

The apostrophe goes before the 's' if the namig noun is singular.

The apostrophe goes after the 's' if the naming noun is plural.

It makes no difference if the naming noun already ends in 's' or 'ss'.
The caves owned by the Minotaur are the Minotaur's caves.

The costume worn by an actress is an actress's costume.
Adjectives for comparing.

An adjective may be compared in three degrees; positive, comparative and superlative.

Positive - Fierce Tiny
Comparative - Fiercer Tinier
Superlative - Fiercest Tiniest.

Most short adjectives take -er and -est (sometimes with a change in spelling). Longer adjectives need 'more' (comparative) and 'most' (superlative). For example enjoyable, more enjoyable, most enjoyable.

There are a few irregular exceptions such as good - better - best which just need to be learnt
Positive - Fierce Tiny
Comparative - Fiercer Tinier
Superlative - Fiercest Tiniest.

Most short adjectives take -er and -est (sometimes with a change in spelling). Longer adjectives need 'more' (comparative) and 'most' (superlative). For example enjoyable, more enjoyable, most enjoyable.

There are a few irregular exceptions such as good - better - best which just need to be learnt
Conjunctions.

Conjunctions are words such as 'and' and 'but' which link other words, sentences and ideas together. They form a junction or a join.

Other conjunctions are or, if, until, so. as, before, after, because.
Zebras and wildebeests roam the vast plains of Africa.

Egypt is hot in summer but comfortable in winter.
Compound sentences.

A longer sentences in which two or more ideas are hooked together by conjunctions is known as a compound sentence
Vultures feed on dead animals although they do not hunt.

(Compound sentences can be turned inside out to add variety without altering the meaning. 'Although they do not hunt their own prey, vultures feed on dead animals.').
Subjects and objects.

The subject of a sentence is the person or thing which is 'doing the verb.'

The object of a sentence is the person or thing which is affected
The boy (subject) kicked (verb) the ball (object).
The passive voice.

The subject and object in a sentence can be reversed by adjusting the words and using 'by'.

If the verb is in the active voice, the subject 'does' the verb to the object. If the verb is in the passive voice, the action of the verb is 'done' to the subject by someone or something.
Active voice
The king rules his country

Passive voice
The country is ruled by its king.
Colons (;)

The colon means "as follows" or "like this." It is used when you want to introduce a list or some information in your writing. Sometimes it is used to introduce what someone says.
Here are some examples of traditional stories: The Three Little Pigs, Brer Rabbit and Robin Hood.

The king said: "I will forgive you."