parts of speech - exam Flashcards
1
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nouns
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- person
- place
- thing: objects, animals, emotions, thoughts/ideas, brands/companies
2
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verbs
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- show action (strike, run)
- occurrences (things happen we can’t control)
- states of being (is, are)
- condition (feeling bad)
3
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adjectives
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- describe nouns (good)
- degrees of adjectives: adjective (good), comparative (better), superlative (best
4
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adverbs
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- modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
- ‘not’ is always an adverb
- ‘very’ is almost always an adverb: exception is ‘from the very beginning of time’
5
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conjunctions
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- words that join 2 or more words/phrases
- 2 types: coordinate and subordinate
6
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interjections
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non-grammatical elements expressing emotions/reactions/greetings
7
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prepositions
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word that shows a relationship between 2 words/phrases
8
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pronouns
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- replacement pronouns
- personal pronouns
- reflexive pronouns (myself, herself, himself)
- demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those)
- indefinite pronouns (all, any none, some)
- a word on ‘thou’ (you)
9
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proper nouns
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refers to specific people, places, organizations, titles (of people, of place, of works), historical events need capital letters
10
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gerund/gerund test
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- if you can replace the ‘ing’ word with a noun and the sentence still makes sense the ‘ing’ word is a gerund
- example: i like running -> i like running
- therefore running is a gerund
11
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demonstrative pronouns
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point to specific words/phrases (this, that, these, those)
12
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participle adjective
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word that looks like a verb and ends in ‘-ing’
13
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conjunctions: coordinate
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joins ‘equal’ parts
14
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conjunctions: subordinate
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joins ‘unequal’ parts
