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We

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Subject first plural pronoun

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You

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Subject second singular/plural pronoun

Object second singular/plural pronoun

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He/she/it

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Subject third subject pronoun

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They

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Subject third plural pronoun

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Me

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Object first singular pronoun

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Us

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Object first plural pronoun

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Him/her/it

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Object third singular pronoun

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Them

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Object third plural pronoun

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I

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Subject first singular pronoun

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Adjective

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Describing word. Commonly used to describe a noun.

Stupid

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Comparative adjective

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Used for comparing two people or things.

Better

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Superlative adjective

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Used for comparing one person or thing with every member of their group.
Greatest

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Common Noun

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Classify things into general types of things.

Dog

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Proper Noun

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Refer to specific people and places - Capital letter

Hannah

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Abstract Noun

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Refer to ideas, processes, occasions, times and qualities that can’t be seen.
Love

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Count Noun

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Can be counted and so have plural form - can’t be used after determiner much
Sheep

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Non-count Noun

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Refer to substances and qualities that can’t be counted. No plural form. Can’t follow determiner ‘a’ but can follow ‘much’.
Joy

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Collective Noun

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Singular in form and refer to groups of people, animals or things.
Company

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Personal Pronoun

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Replace the noun

he, she, it

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Possessive Pronoun

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Used to show possession of something.

Mine, Ours, theirs, yours

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Reflexive pronoun

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Used when the same person is the subject and object in the sentence. Can create emphasis.
Myself, ourselves, yourself, herself

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Demonstrative Pronoun

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Refer to particular people or things and are used to ‘point’ to them.
This, That, Those, These

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Interrogative pronoun

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Used to ask questions

What, Which, Who, Whom and Whose.

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Indefinite Pronoun

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Refer to people or things in general.

All of, Both of, each of, neither of, every, some, -one, - body, no+thing

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Relative Pronoun

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Follow the nouns they describe directly. Create relative clauses.
Who, Whom, Which, Whose, That

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Verb

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Doing word

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Dynamic Verb

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Indicated action, process or sensation

Brought

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Stative Verb

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Describes a state, situation or condition

Own

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Transitive Verb

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Followed by a direct object.

Sells

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Intransitive Verb

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Doesn’t have an object

sat

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Lexical Verb

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Full or main verb. Any Verb in english that isn’t a auxiliary verb. Conveys a real meaning and doesn’t rely on another verb.
Rained

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Auxiliary Verb

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Helping verb. Determines the mood or tense of another verb.

3 common ones - Have, Do, Be

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Primary Verb

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The main auxiliary Verbs - Have, Do, Be

“ The Primary Auxiliary Verb ‘have’….

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Modal Auxiliary Verb

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Describes an action. There are 9.

Can, Could, May, Might, Must, Would, Will, Should, Shall, Ought.

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Adverb

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Modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause, or sentence. Typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty.
I worked “yesterday”

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Circumstance Adverb

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These tell us about the particular circumstances in which the action or the state or the change took place.
Quickly, there, often

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Degree Adverb

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Tell us about the intensity or degree of an action, an adjective or another adverb.
Almost, nearly, quite, just, too, enough, hardly, scarcely, completely, very, extremely.

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Sentence Adverb

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Expresses a writer’s or speaker’s attitude to the content of the sentence in which it occurs (such as frankly, obviously ), or places the sentence in a particular context (such as technically, politically ).

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Determiner

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Determiners are words which come at the beginning of the noun phrase. They tell us whether the noun phrase is specific or general.

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Definite Article

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The

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Indefinite Article

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A, An

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Possessive Determiner

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Show Possession.

My, your, his, her, its; our, their, whose

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Demonstrative Determiner

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Refer to particular people or things.

This, that, these, those

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Indefinite Determiner

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?

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Cardinal

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Refer to quantity.

one, two, three, etc

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Ordinal

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Refer to distribution.

first, second, third, etc

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Conjunction

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Used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause .
and, but, if

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Co-ordinating Conjunction

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Placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank
and, but, or.

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Subordinating Conjunction

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Introduces a subordinating clause.

although, because.

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Phrase

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Small group of words that forms a meaningful unit within a clause.

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Present Participle

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The form of a verb, ending in -ing

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Past Participle

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The form of a verb, typically ending in -e

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Noun Phrase

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A noun phrase or nominal phrase (abbreviated NP) is a phrase which has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head word.

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Headword

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Word in initial position of clause that determines the nature of a phrase

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Pre-modifier

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Word, especially an adjective or a noun, that is placed before a noun and describes it or restricts its meaning in some way.
The “ugly” cat…

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Post-modifier

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Word, especially an adjective or a noun, that is placed after a noun and describes it or restricts its meaning in some way.
The cat was “ugly”…

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Intensifier

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Gives additional emotional context to the word it modifies.

Amazing

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Qualifier

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Used to attribute a quality to another word, especially a noun.

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Main Clause

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Can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb.

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Subordinate Clause

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A clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause

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Simple Sentence

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A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.

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Compound Sentence

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A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.

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Complex Sentence

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A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

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Minor Sentence

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A minor sentence is a sentence that is either not fully formed or is an incomplete sentence.

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Declarative

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Used to convey information or to make statements.

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Imperative

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Imperative sentences are used in issuing orders or directives

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Interrogative

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Interrogative sentences are used in asking questions

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Exclamative

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Exclamative sentences are used to make exclamations

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Compliment

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A polite expression of praise or admiration

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Adverbial

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A word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial phrase or an adverbial clause) that modifies or tells us something about the sentence or the verb.

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Active Voice

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The subject performs the action denoted by the verb.

Maddie sent the letter.

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Passive Voice

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Subject is no longer active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the verb
The letter was sent by Maddie.

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