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What are parts of speech?

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verbs,adjectives,nouns,pronouns,adverbs,propositions,conjunctions,modifiers

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What is a verb?

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A verb is an action word. It is the action in the sentence.

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What is a noun?

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A noun refers to a SPECIFIC person,place, or thing. (Names of people,places and things)

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What is a pronoun?

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A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun, often to avoid the need to repeat the same noun over and over. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to people, things, concepts, and places.

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Adverbs

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An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb (“he sings loudly”), an adjective (“very tall”), another adverb (“ended too quickly”), or even a whole sentence (“Fortunately, I had brought an umbrella.”). Adverbs often end in -ly

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Adjectives

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An adjective is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase

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Conjunctions

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Joining words. A conjunction is a word that is used to connect words, phrases, and clauses

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Preposition

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word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object

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It is raining when i got home last night

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It WAS raining when i got home last night.

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I have not ate anything today.

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I have not EATEN anything today.

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Everyone have seen that movie.

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Everyone HAS seen that movie.

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I fell asleep while i watched TV

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I fell asleep while i WAS WATCHING TV

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I have lived in Australia since 10 months

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I have lived in Australia FOR 10 months

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I have not and iphone

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I DO NOT have an Iphone

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