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Parts of Speech & Basic Grammar (The name word) Flashcards

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1
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Names a particular person, place, or thing. The first letter must me capitalized

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Proper Noun

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Does not denote anybody, anyplace or anything in particular

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Common Noun

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The speaker is talking about somebody, something or someplace specific

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Proper Noun

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Refers to anyone belonging to a class of persons, place, and things.

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Common Noun

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5
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A word used for naming person, an animal, a place, a thing, or an idea

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Noun

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These two types of nouns usually belong to common nouns

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Collective Noun

Abstract Noun

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Refers to a collectivity or a group of persons, animals, or things that are counted or deemed as one.

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Collective Noun

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Denotes an intangible idea. It names a condition or a concept.

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Abstract Noun

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Anything that names a quality

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Abstract noun

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10
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Singular when we think of it as a group and plural when we think of the individuals acting within the whole.

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Collective Noun

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It denotes the speaker

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First Person

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A noun may indicate the speaker, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about

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Person

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It denotes the one spoken about

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Third Person

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It denotes the one spoken to

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Second Person

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What are the Modifications or Qualities of Nouns?

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Person
Number
Gender

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Refers to only one person, animal, thing, or place.

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Singular Noun

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A noun maybe singular or plural

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Number

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Refers to more than one of them (noun)

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Plural Noun

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Denote objects that do not have sex

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Neuter

20
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Denote the female sex

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Feminine

21
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A modification or qualities of nouns that may be masculine, feminine, neuter

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Gender

22
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Denote the male sex

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Masculine

23
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A noun thay may be taken as masculine or feminine is considered as _______

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Masculine

24
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A noun has a quality that denotes its relation to other words in a sentence

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Case

25
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Three cases:

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Nominative
Possessive
Objective

26
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A noun may be used differently in different sentences

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Nominative Case

27
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It is what being talked about or when it does the action in the sentence

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Subject

28
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It is used to say something about the subject.

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Predicate Nominative or Subjective Complement

29
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It is directly addressed (talk to) in the sentence

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Address

30
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It is used independently to express a strong emotion

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Nominative of Exclamation

31
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It denotes the same person, place, or thing as the noun being explained

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Nominative in Apposition

32
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It follows a noun or a pronoun and explains its meaning

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Appositive

33
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A noun may indicate ownership, possession or connection to another word in the sentence

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Possessive Case

34
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Used as the receiver of the action indicated by the verb

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Direct object

35
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It is what the preposition in the sentence refers to. Usually follows the preposition.

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Object of a preposition

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The noun is used as an appositive of (explains or specifies) a noun that is in the objective case, then that noun is in the objective case as well, functioning as an objective in apposition.

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Objective in Apposition

37
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A noun refers to whom or for whom an action is done

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Indirect object

38
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Part of speech that tells us when, where, why, how much, how far and how long

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Adverb

39
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When a noun is used as an adverb

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Advebrial objective

40
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When the noun has the following uses..

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Objective case

41
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When the verb changes from active to passive but retains its direct object

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Retained Object

42
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When a noun is used to explain the direct object and complete the meaning of the verb

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Objective Complement

43
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When a noun that repeats the meaning implied by the verb is a direct object

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Cognate object

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