Parts Of Speech Flashcards

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Noun

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Names a person, place, thing or idea

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Pronoun

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Used in place of a noun

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Verb

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Expresses action or a state of being

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Adjective

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Modifies a noun or pronoun. The most common are the articles a, an, and the

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Adverb

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Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

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Preposition

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Shows the relationship between its object - a noun or a pronoun - and another word in a sentence. Common prepositions include after, around, at behind, beside, off, through, until, upon, and with

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Conjunction

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Joins words or group of words. Common conjunctions are and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet, either, or, and not only, but also

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Interjection

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Word used to express emotion. Common interjections are oh, ah, well, hey, and wow

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Common noun

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Names a person, place or thing

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Proper noun

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Names a specific person, place, or thing: begins with capital letter

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Concrete noun

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Names a thing that can be touched, seen, heard, smelled, or tasted

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Abstract noun

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Names an idea, a theory, a concept, or a feeling

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Singular noun

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Names one person, place, idea, or thing

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Plural noun

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Names more than one thing

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Plural noun

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Names more than one thing

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Possessive noun

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Shows ownership or possession of things or qualities

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Compound noun

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Made up of two or more words

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Collective noun

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Names groups

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Pronoun

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Used in place of a noun

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Personal pronoun

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Used in place of the name of a person or thing

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Indefinite pronoun

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Points out a person, place, or thing, but not a specific or definite one

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Indefinite pronoun

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Points out a person, place, or thing, but not a specific or definite one
Ex. one, someone, anything, other, all, few, nobody

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Reflexive pronouns

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Refers back to a noun previously used; adds -self or -selves to another pronoun form
Ex. myself, herself, yourself, themselves, ourselves

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Intensive pronouns

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Emphasizes a noun or pronoun
Ex. I myself, he himself, you yourself, they themselves, we ourselves

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Interrogative pronouns

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Asks a question
Ex. who, whose, whom, what, which

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Demonstrative pronouns

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Points out a specific person, place, idea or thing
Ex. this, these, that, those

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Relative pronouns

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Introduces an adjective clause
Ex. that, which, who, whose, whom

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Antecedents

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The word that a pronoun stands for. Clarifies the meaning of the pronoun.

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A pronoun should agree in both ________ and _________ with its antecedent

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number and gender

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Action Verbs

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  • May expresses physical action or mental action
  • Physical action and Mental Action
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State of Being Verb

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Tells you when and where someone or something exists. State of being verbs are formed from the verb to be.

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Forms of Be

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am, be, being, was, are, been, is, were