Parts Of Speech Flashcards

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Nouns

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Person place or thing

Ex. Girl, Australia, pencil

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Adjective

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Describes a noun or pronoun. Tells what kind, how many or which one.

Ex. Happy, Two, That

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Verb

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Tells what action someone or something is doing. Can also express state of being.

Ex. Run, am

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Pronoun

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Replaces a noun. Takes place of a person place or thing.

Ex. She, you

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Article

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‘A’, ‘an’ and ‘the’.

Ex. A dog, an apple, the bird

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Adverb

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Describes a verb. Tells how, when, where or to what degree.

Ex. Quickly, today, outside, barely

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Preposition

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Combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that tells something about another word in the sentence.

Ex. From, to, until

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Conjunction

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Joins together single words or groups of words in a sentence.

Ex. And, but, or

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Interjection

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Expresses strong feelings or emotion. Can be a single word or a phrase.

Ex. Help!, Wow!,

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Proper noun

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A name used for an individual person, place or organisation

Eg. Jane, London

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Abstract noun

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Feelings or emotions.

Eg. Happiness, anger

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Collective noun

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A noun that counts a group of individuals.

Eg, family, pack, Crew

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Common noun

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A class of objects opposed to a particular individual

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Singular noun

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One of something

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Plural noun

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.more than one of something

Eg. Group-groups

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Concrete noun

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Things you can experience with your five senses

17
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Superlative adjective

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Used to compare three or more things.

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Comparative adjective

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Used to compare differences between two objects

Eg. Bigger, faster, smaller

19
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Subordinating conjunctions

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A conjunction that introduced a subordinating clause

Eg. Although, because

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Coordinating conjunctions

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A conjunction placed between phrases, clauses or sentences of equal rank

Eg and, but, or

21
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Correlating conjunctions

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Connect two balanced clauses, phrases or words.

Eg. Neither, nor, only, but, also