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This part of speech is a person, place, or thing.

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Noun

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This part of speech replaces a noun in a sentence.

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Pronoun

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This type of pronoun acts as a subject or object in a sentence.

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Personal Pronouns

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This type of pronoun indicates possession.

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Possessive Pronoun

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This type of pronoun intensifies a noun.

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Intensive Pronoun

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This type of pronoun reflect back upon a noun.

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Reflexive Pronoun

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This type of pronoun begins dependent clauses.

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Relative Pronoun

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This type of pronoun begins questions.

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Interrogative Pronoun

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This type of pronoun point out or draw attention to something or someone; indicate proximity or distance

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Demonstrative Pronoun

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This type of verb joins the subject to the subject complement.

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Linking Verb

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This type of verb takes an object.

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Transitive Verb

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This type of verb does not take an object.

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Intransitive Verb

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Identify the pronoun:

“I”

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Subjective, First Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“We”

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Subjective, First Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“You”

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Subjective, Second Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“You (all)”

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Subjective, Second Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“He, She, It”

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Subjective, Third Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“They”

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Subjective, Third Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Me”

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Objective, First Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Us”

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Objective, First Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“You”

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Objective, Second Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“You (all)”

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Objective, Second Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Him, Her, It”

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Objective, Third Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Them”

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Objective, Third Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“My”

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Possessive, First Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Our”

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Possessive, First Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Your”

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Possessive, Second Person, Singular and Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“His, Her, Its”

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Possessive, Third Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Their”

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Possessive, Third Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Myself”

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Reflexive/Intensive, First Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Ourselves”

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Reflexive/Intensive, First Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Yourself”

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Reflexive/Intensive, Second Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Yourselves”

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Reflexive/Intensive, Second Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Himself, Herself, Itself”

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Reflexive/Intensive, Third Person, Singular

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Identify the pronoun:

“Themselves”

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Reflexive/Intensive, Third Person, Plural

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Identify the pronoun:

“Who, Which, That, Whose”

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Relative Subjective Pronoun

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Identify the pronoun:

“Whom, Which, That, Whose”

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Relative Objective Pronoun

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Identify the pronoun:

“Who, Whom, What, Where, When, Which, Why, How”

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Interrogative Pronoun

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Identify the pronoun:

“This, These, That, Those”

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Demonstrative Pronoun

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Identify the pronoun:

“Each, Either, Everybody, Nobody, One, Neither, Anyone, Both, Few, Many, Several, Some, Most, More”

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Indefinite Pronoun

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Practice:

“Yesterday, I (laid/lay) on the couch for hours.”

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“Lay”

Intransitive; does not take object

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Practice:

“(Lying/Laying) the picture down, he smiled with admiration.”

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“Laying”

Transitive; takes object

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Practice:

“The city workers had (laid/lain) the plans for civiv center.”

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“Laid”

Transitive; does not take object

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Practice:

“(Lying/Laying) in the basket, the flowers dried beautifully.”

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“Lying”

Intransitive; does not take object

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Practice:

“For five years she (lay/laid) in a coma.”

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“Lay”

Intransitive; does not take object

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Identify the adjectives:

“Her camera fell into the turbulent water, so her frantic friend quickly grabbed the damp item.”

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“Her, the, turbulent, her, frantic, the, damp”

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Identify the pronoun:
“Several of the administrators who had spoken clearly on the budget increase gave both of the opposing committee members a list of their ideas.”

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“Several, who, both”

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Identify the conjunctions:
“The political parties do not know if the most popular candidates will survive until the election, but neither the voters nor the candidates will give up their push for popularity.”

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“If (subordinating), but (coordinating), neither/nor (correlative)”

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What are the 8 types of phrases?

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Prepositional Phrase
Verb phrase
Noun phrase
Appositive phrase
Gerund phrase
Participial phrase
Infinitive phrase
Absolute phrase
50
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Identify the phrase type:

“The chef WOULD HAVE CREATED another souffle, but the staff protested.”

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Verb Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“BEFORE BREAKFAST, I took the dog out.”

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Prepositional Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“THE BIG, RED BARN rests beside THE VACANT CHICKEN HOUSE.”

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Noun Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“My dad, A CLOCK MAKER, loves antiques.

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Appositive Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“She is worried about BECOMING LIKE HER MOTHER.”

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Gerund Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“ENJOYING THE STARS THAT FILLED THE SKY, Dave lingered outside for quite a while.”

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Participle Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“Jon, KNOWN FOR HIS GOLF EXPERTISE, played in a Vero Beach tournament last month.”

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Participle Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

I wanted TO SEE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON EACH HOME.”

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Infinitive Phrase

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Identify the phrase type:

“HER EYES CLOSING, Sandra laid her head down on the pillow, ready for a good night’s sleep.”

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Absolute Phrase

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This type of clause is introduced by subordinating conjunctions; they modify the independent clauses to which they are attached by answering adverb questions.

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Adverb Clause

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This type of clause is introduced by relative pronouns and relative adverbs; play vital role by filling the position of subject, object of a preposition, or direct object.

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Noun Clause

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This type of clause is introduced by relative pronouns and relative adverb; play a describing or modifying role; providing more information about a noun or pronoun

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Adjective Clause

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Identify the clause type:

BECAUSE SHE LOVES PIZZA, we took her to Pizza Plaza.

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Adverb Clause

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Identify the clause type:

She moved to the city AFTER HER CAR BROKE DOWN.

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Adverb Clause

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Identify the clause type:

WHEN SHE WILL MOVE has not been determined.

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Noun Clause

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Identify the clause type:

The judge ruled THAT SHE SHOULD GO TO JAIL.

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Noun Clause

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Identify the clause type:

He gave the prize to whomever she chose.

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Noun Clause

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Identify the clause type:

My dad, WHO BUILT CLOCKS, came from Sweden.

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Adjective Clause

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Identify the clause type:

The restaurant WHERE WE ATE serves salmon.

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Adjective Clause = the relative adverb “where” introduces the adjective clause answering the question which restaurant.

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This sentence type has 1 independent clause and 0 dependent clauses.

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Simple Sentence

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This sentence type has 2+ independent clause and 0 dependent clauses.

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Compound Sentence

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This sentence type has 1 independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses.

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Complex Sentence

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This sentence type has 2+ independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses.

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Compound-Complex Sentence

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Identify the sentence type:

The cat under the back porch jumped against the glass yesterday.

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Simple Sentence
THE CAT (under the back porch) JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday).
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Identify the sentence type:

The cat under the back porch jumped against the glass yesterday, and he scared my grandma; he even scared my grandpa.

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Compound Sentence
THE CAT (under the back porch) JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday), and HE SCARED my grandma; HE even SCARED my grandpa.
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Identify the sentence type:

Cole, the cat under the porch who loves tuna, jumped against the glass yesterday.

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Complex Sentence

Cole, THE CAT (under the porch), [WHO LOVES TUNA], JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday).

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Identify the sentence type:
Cole, the cat under the porch who loves tuna, jumped against the glass yesterday; he left a mark on the window with his dirty nose.

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Complex-Compound Sentence
Cole, THE CAT (under the porch), [WHO LOVES TUNA], JUMPED (against the glass) (yesterday); HE LEFT a mark (on the window) (with his dirty nose).

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Identify the phrases:
WRAPPING PACKAGES FOR THE SOLDIERS, the kind woman tightly rolled the t-shirts TO SEE HOW MUCH SPACE remained FOR THE HOMEMADE COOKIES.

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Participial, infinitive, and prepositional

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