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Proper Nouns

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they name particular persons, places and are capitalized

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Noun

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it names a person, place, thing, animal, or idea

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Pronoun

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it’s takes the place of a noun

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Antecedent

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the noun that a pronoun stands for

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Verb

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it expresses action or links the subject to another word in the sentence

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Adjective

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it modifies a noun or a pronoun

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Adverb

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it modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

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Preposition

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it relates a noun or pronoun to some other part of the sentence

an object may be compound

the preposition , it’s object, and any modifiers make up a prepositional phrase

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Conjunction

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it connects words or word groups

the coordinating conjunctions are and, but, or, nor, for, and yet

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Interjection

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it shows sudden, usually strong, feeling

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