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What is a noun

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A noun is a word or set of words for a person, place, thing, idea, emotion

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What is a pronoun

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A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun

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What is an antecedent

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An antecedent is a word that a pronoun stands in for

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What are the 6 types of Pronouns

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Personal, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, reflexive/intensive, and indefinite

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What is a personal pronoun

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The most common type of pronoun

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What is a demonstrative pronoun

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A pronoun that is used to point things out

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What is an interrogative pronoun

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A pronoun that is used to ask questions

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What is a relative pronoun

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A pronoun that is used to begin an adjective clause

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What is an intensive/reflexive pronoun

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They are personal pronouns with -self added to the end

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What is an indefinite pronoun

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They are pronouns that do not refer to a specific noun

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What is a verb

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A verb is a word or set of words that show action, feeling, or state of being.

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What is a linking verb

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A linking verb ties together words before and after a verb

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What are the 6 main tenses

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Present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect

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What is a transitive verb

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A verb with a direct object

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What is an intransitive verb

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A verb with no direct object

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What is an adjective

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A part of speech used to describe nouns

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What are the three special types of adjective

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demonstrative adjectives, proper adjectives, articles

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What is an adverb

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A part of speech that is used to describe verbs

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What is a preposition

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A preposition is a word that indicates the location or some other relationship between a noun/pronoun and other parts of a sentence

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What is a compound noun

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A compound noun is a noun with more than one word

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What is a conjunction

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A conjunction is a word that joins phrases or sentences together.

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What is an interjection

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An interjection is a word that doesn’t add anything grammatically to a sentence

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What is a subject

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A subject is the noun/pronoun that performs the verb

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What is a compound subject

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A compound subject is two subjects joined by a conjunction

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What is a complete subject

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The entire subject, which including any adjectives or phrases that are part of the subject

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What is a direct object

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Direct objects are words that receive the action of the verb. They are the answer to what or who of the verb

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What is an indirect object

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Indirect objects are objects that come between the verb and the direct object

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What is an article

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a, an, the

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What is the object of a preposition

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It is the noun/pronoun in a prepositional phrase

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What is a prepositional phrase

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It is a group of words that include a preposition, article, and noun/pronoun

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What is a predicate word

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Predicate words are adjectives or nouns of a linking verb

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How do you find linking verbs

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Replace verbs with the word is, check if the sentence still makes sense

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What is a declarative sentence

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A declarative sentence makes a statement and generally ends with a period

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What is an interrogative sentence

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An interrogative sentence asks a question. This type of sentence would generally end with a question mark.

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What is an imperative sentence

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An imperative sentence gives a command. It usually ends with a period.

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What is an exclamatory sentence

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An exclamatory sentence expresses emotion and ends with an exclamation point

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