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noun

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a person, place, thing, or idea

ex. finesse,education, school, New York, teacher

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pronoun

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a word used in place of a noun

ex. I, her, him, it, that, these, she, he

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adjective

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a word that describes or gives information about a noun or pronoun
ex. colorful, odious, incessant, joyful, loud

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verb

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a word that shows action or state of being

ex. talk, jump, scream, run, is , am, are

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adverb

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a word that describes a verb, adjective, or other adverbs

ex. slowly carefully, incessantly

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preposition

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shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word

ex. to, over, under, at, between, in

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conjunction

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a word that connects a word, groups of words, and sentences.

ex.for, and or, but, yet

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interjection

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a word that expresses surprise or strong feeling, seperate from the sentence
ex.Wow! Hey!

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