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Noun

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A noun is a word that names a person, a place or a thing

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Proper Noun

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A proper noun is the title or the name of a noun

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Collective Noun

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A collective noun indicates that a single noun represents a group or number of individual elements

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Abstract Noun

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A abstract noun is something that cannot be perceived by the senses

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Concrete Noun

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A concrete noun is something that can be perceived by the senses

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Common Noun

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A common noun are nouns that do not fall in the previous categories

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Compound Noun

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A compound noun are nouns that end in -s, -es or no change at all

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Pronoun

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A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun

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Personal Pronoun

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A pronoun is a short word used as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person

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Reflexive Pronoun

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A pronoun is a word that ends in -self or -selves that are used when…
1. The subject and object are the same
2. The object of a preposition, when the subject and object are the same
3. It is used to emphasize the subject

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Interrogative Pronoun

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An interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions

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Demonstrative Pronoun

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A demonstrative pronoun is used to point out

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Indefinite Pronoun

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A indefinite pronoun are pronouns that doesn’t necessarily refer to its antecedent

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Antecedent

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A antecedent is the noun which the pronoun replaces or refers to

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Relative Pronoun

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A relative pronoun is used to relate an adjective clause to a noun it modifies

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Verb

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A verb either shows action or being can be one word, or a group of words, indicates whether a subject is singular or plural and tells when something happened (past, present, or past principles)

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Action Verb

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An action verb describes actions that a person or something is doing

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Being/Linking Verb

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A being or linking verb shows what someone or something is and links a subject to a noun or adjective in the predicate

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Auxiliary Verb

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An auxiliary verb are verbs that help to form some of the tense or voice of the main verb

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Transitive Verb

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A transitive verb transfers its action to the object and must always answer who or what

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Intransitive Verb

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An intransitive verb is a subject that doesn’t require a direct object to complete its action

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Adjective

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An adjective describes nouns or pronouns

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Article (aka Limiting Adjective)

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An article (a, an, the) is a limiting adjective, meaning that they either refer to a specific noun (the) or a generalized noun (a)

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Adverbs

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An adverb answer a variety of questions about the word they modify usually a verb, adjective or another adverb

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Adverb of manner

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An adverb of manner tells us about how the action occured

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Adverb of place

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An adverb of place tells us about where something occurred

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Adverb of time

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An adverb of time tells us about when something occurred

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Adverb of frequency

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An adverb of frequency tells us about how many times the action occurred

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Preposition

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A preposition is a word or set of words that indicates the location, movement, time and has a relationship between a noun or pronoun and other parts of the sentence

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Prepositional Phrase

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A prepositional phrase is a preposition that goes with a related noun or pronoun

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Conjunction

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A conjunction are words that link other words, phrases or clauses together to allow them to form complex, elegant sentences and avoid the choppiness of multiple short sentences

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Interjection

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An interjection are words used to express strong feelings or sudden emotion as they are included in a sentence usually at the start to express a sentiment such as surprise, disgust, joy, excitement, or enthusiasm

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Subject-Verb Pattern (S-V Pattern)

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The subject-verb pattern is a sentence that must have two parts; a subject and a verb. The subject has to be a noun, a pronoun, a noun clause or a verbal

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Noun Clause

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A noun clause is a group of words that act as if they were all together one thing like a noun

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Verbal

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A verbal is a verb that it can be used as if it were a noun

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Subject-Verb-Object Pattern (S-V-O Pattern)

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A subject-verb-object pattern is a sentence with verbs (linking and transitive verbs) needing an object to complete the message

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Subject & Predicate Pattern

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A subject and predicate pattern are sentences with 2 essential parts of every completed sentence

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Subject

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A subject is a person, thing or idea of which something is said

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Predicate

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A predicate tells or asks something about the subject

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Expository Writing

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Expository writing gives information, explains directions, or shows how
something happens

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Descriptive Writing

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Descriptive writing describes specific sensory details about a person, place, or thing

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Persuasive Writing

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Persuasive writing tries to convince the reader of the author’s point of view

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Narrative Writing

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Narrative writing tells a story about an event, adventure, scene, or happening

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Subject-Verb-Object-Indirect Object Pattern (S-V-O-IO Pattern)

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A subject-verb-object-indirect object pattern is a sentence that still needs to complete a thought usually with the word to or for in front of it or adding it in the mind to reveal the indirect object

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Declarative

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A declarative makes a statement or declares something

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Exclamatory

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An exclamatory is the same as declarative, but with more emotion

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Imperative

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An imperative gives an order like an emperor

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