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Nouns

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Words used to give names to people, places, things, and ideas.
The subject of the sentence.

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Verbal Noun

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A noun that has no verb-like qualities despite being derived from a noun.

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Pronoun

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Replace other nouns in a sentence

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Personal Pronoun

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Act as subject or object of a sentence (She, her)

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Possessive Pronoun

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Hers, mine

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Reflexive Pronoun

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Myself

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Relative Pronouns

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Connected to a noun - replaces a noun in the sentence
That, which, who, whom, and whose

Begins a dependent clause
Charlie, who made the clocks,
I live in Texas, which is a large state
I don’t know whose car that is

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Interrogative Pronouns

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Used to ask questions

Who, which, whom, what, and whose

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Demonstrative Pronouns

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Draws attention to a noun and can indicate it’s position in space or time.
This, that, these, and those

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Indefinite Pronouns

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Replaces nouns to avoid unnecessary repetition (several, both, another, many, all, most, everyone, anything, more)

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Verbs

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Express action or a state of being

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Action Verbs

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Express Action

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Linking Verbs

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Join the subject of the sentence to the subject complement, which follows the verb and provides more info about the subject.

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Helping Verbs

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Used to indicate tense or time of the action
All tenses of the following:
is, be, had, do, should, would, could, will

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Simple Verb Tense

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Occurring once

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Continuous Verb Tense

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Ongoing

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Active Voice

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The subject of the sentence performs the main action of the sentence

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Adjectives

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Modify or describe nouns and pronouns

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Adjective - Determiners

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Articles (a, an and the)
Possessive Adjectives (my, her)
Descriptors of Quantity (three, several)

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Adjective - Origin

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Modifiers that describe where something came from (American, homemade)

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Adjective - Purpose

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Adjectives that function as part of the noun to describe it’s purpose (sewing machine, rocking chair)

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Adverbs

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It’s a modifier. It modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, phrases or clauses.

Often formed by adding the suffix -ly, modify any word or set of words that aren’t a noun or pronoun.

Often answer the questions
Where? When? Why? How? How often? To what extent? Under what conditions?

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Conjunctions

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join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences by use of three mechanisms.
Coordinating, correlative, and subordinating.

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Coordinating Conjunctions

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Join together two independent clauses or complete thoughts.
Include and, but , or for, not, yet, so, etc..
Note that some fo these can also be used to join items in a series.

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Correlative Conjunctions

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Whether/or Either/or Neither/nor Both/and Not only/but also

Work together to join items

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Subordinating Conjunctions

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Join dependent clauses (thoughts that cannot stand alone as sentences) to the related independent clause.
They usually describe some sort of relationship between two parts of the sentence, such as cause and effect or order.
Can appear at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence.

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Prepositions

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Set up relationships in time or space.
After the party or Under the cushions

Prepositions are usually a part of a prepositional phrase which includes the object of the preposition.
If a preposition is standing alone in a sentence, then it is usually functioning as an adverb.

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Interjections

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Have no grammatical attachment to the sentence itself other than to add expressions of emotion.

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Syntax

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The study of how words are combined to create sentences

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Subject

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What the sentence is about, it will be a noun that is usually performing the main action of the sentence, and may be accompanied by modifiers

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Predicate

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Describes what the subject is doing or being. It contains the verbs and any modifiers or objects that accompany it.

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Phrase

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Partial idea, lacks either a subject or a predicate

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Prepositional Phrase

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Beings with a preposition and ends with an object of the preposition

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Verb Phrase

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Composed of the main verb along with it’s helping verbs

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Noun Phrase

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Consists of a noun and it’s modifiers

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Appositive Phrase

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A noun phrase that renames the word or group of words that precede it

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Verbal Phrase

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Begin with a word that would normally act as a verb but is instead filling another role within the sentence. These can act as nouns, adjectives or adverbs.

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Gerund Phrase

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Begin with gerunds which are verbs that end in -ing and act as nouns

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Participial Phrase

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is a verbal phrase that acts as an adjective
Start with either present participles which end in -ing or past participles which usually end in -ed
Can be extracted from the sentence and the sentence would still make sense because the participial is only modifying

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Infinitive Phrase

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Verbal phrase that may act as a noun, adjective or adverb

Being with the word to, followed by a simple form of a verb

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Clauses

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Contain both a subject and a predicate.

Can be independent or dependent

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Independent Clause

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Can stand as it’s own sentence

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Dependent Clause

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Cannot stand alone as it’s own sentence

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Simple Sentence

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Will have only one independent clause and no dependent clauses

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Compound Sentence

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Two or more independent clauses and no dependent

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Complex Sentence

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Has only one independent clause, and one or more dependent clauses

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Compound - Complex Sentence

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Two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

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Semicolon

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Used to show a general relationship between two independent clauses

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Colon

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Introduces a list, definition, or clarification

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