Parts Of Speech Flashcards
1
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Verbs
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Words that define actions or a state of being
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Nouns
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Words that name a person, place, thing, or idea
3
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Pronouns
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Words that take place of the noun in a sentence - she, they, we, it, etc.
4
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Adjectives
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Words that modify nouns. Adjectives add more detail about a specific noun
5
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Verb tense
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A sentence is either past, present, or future tense
6
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Past participle
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Past participle is a verb tense that is composed of the past tense of the verb plus “have,” “has,” or “had”
7
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Past perfect
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Past perfect tense describes something that took place in a more distant past instead of the recent past by pairing “had” with a verb
8
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Subordinating conjunction
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A word or phrase that connects an independent and dependent clause. They connect complex sentences
