Parts of Speech Flashcards
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- expresses either physical or mental activity
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- action verbs
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- expresses action or state of being
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- verbs
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- expresses an action directed toward a person, place, thing, or idea
- answers what
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- transitive verb
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- expresses action that does not pass to a receiver
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- intransitive verb
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- links the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes it
- most are forms of be
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- linking verbs
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- helps the main verb; can be used with both action and linking verbs
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- helping verbs
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- modify verbs, adjectives, other kinda of themself
- answers where, when, how, how often, how long, to what extent, how much
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- adverb
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- show relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word; must have an object
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- preposition
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- joins words or word groups
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- conjunction
9
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- expresses emotion
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- interjection