English terms flash cards (I'm super creative)

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Noun

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a word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place

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Common noun

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words for types of things, people, and places

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Personal pronouns

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words like “you” that refer to the person speaking or writing, to the person they’re addressing, or to other people and things

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Possessive personal pronoun

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pronouns that are used to indicate the ownership (possession) of something or someone by something or someone else

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Adverb

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a word that modifies (describes) a verb

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Prepositions

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a 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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Conjunction

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a word that is used to connect words, phrases, and clauses

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Coordinating conjunction

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a word that joins two elements of equal grammatical rank and syntactic importance

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Action verb

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a verb that expresses action

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Present tense

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the tense that is used to refer to events, actions, and conditions that are happening all the time, or exist now

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Verbal

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a word derived from a verb that functions in a sentence as a noun or modifier rather than as a verb

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Participle

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a verbal, or a word based off of a verb that expresses a state of being, ending in -ing (present tense) or -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n, or -ne (past tense) that functions as an adjective

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Simple subject

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a subject that has just one noun as the focus of the sentence

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Complete subject

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It contains the simple subject - the noun that the whole sentence is about - but it also includes all of the words that modify that noun

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Simple predicate/verb

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a single word (or group of words if a verb phrase) representing the verb without any of its modifiers

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Transitive verb

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verbs that take an object, which means they include the receiver of the action in the sentence

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Intransitive verb

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a verb that doesn’t require a direct object (i.e., a noun, pronoun or noun phrase) to indicate the person or thing acted upon

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Complete predicate

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all the words in a sentence or clause except the subject and words that describe the subject

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Compliment

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a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression

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Direct object

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the person or thing that directly receives the action or effect of the verb

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Prepositional phrase

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a noun or pronoun that comes after a preposition

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Object of the preposition

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a noun or pronoun that comes after a preposition

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Clause

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a group of words that contains a subject and a verb that have a relationship

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Independent clause

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a group of words that contains a subject and verb and expresses a complete thought

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Compound sentence

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a sentence that connects two independent clauses, typically with a coordinating conjunction like and or but

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Imperative sentence

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a sentence that expresses a direct command, request, invitations, warning, or instruction

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Capitalization

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3 lines under the letter tat needs capitalized / using capital, or upper-case, letters

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Declarative sentence

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a sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact, offers an explanation, or conveys information

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Semicolon

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a punctuation mark that can be used to separate parts of a sentence which need clearer separation than would be shown by a comma, to separate main clauses which have no conjunction between, and to separate phrases and clauses containing commas

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Past tense

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the form of a verb used to describe an action that happened before the present time and is no longer happening

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Articles

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An adjective

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Apostrophe

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a mark ‘ used to indicate the omission of letters or figures, the possessive case, or the plural of letters or figures

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Nominative personal pronoun

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When a noun or pronoun is used as the subject of a verb

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Participle phrase

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a group of words containing a participle, modifier, and pronoun or noun phrases

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Object of the participle

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direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the participle

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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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Proper noun

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Give the proper name of something, like the name of a resturaunt or person

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Relative pronouns

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a pronoun used to introduce a relative clause

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Demonstrative pronouns

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a word used to stand in for a noun

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Linking verb

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verbs that don’t show an action but rather describe the subject

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Interjection

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an exclamation, especially as a part of speech

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Predicate nominative

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the noun or pronoun that comes after a linking verb

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Compliment

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a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression

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Direct object

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the person or thing that directly receives the action or effect of the verb

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Dependent clause

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Clause that needs and independent clause to work properly

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Adjective dependent clause

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Requires

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Complex sentence

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2 independent + 1 dependent clause

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Exclamatory sentence

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Emphases emotion and tone

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Quotation marks

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Used to note a quote, or when a character is speaking