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Noun

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Person,Place or thing

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Verb

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. A verb refers to an action, event or state.

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Adjectives

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a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical

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It is a word that modifies (describes) a verb

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Adverb

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It is a word that refers to either the people talking (“I” or “you”) or someone or something that is being talked about

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Pronoun

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a pronoun indicating possession, for example mine, yours, hers, theirs.

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Possesive pronoun

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a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.

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Prepostion

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a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several.

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Determiner

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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

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Conjunction

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Plural noun

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a noun that refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea

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an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can.

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Modal Verb

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a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object, e.g. truth, danger, happiness.

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Abstract Noun

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a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing

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Proper Noun

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Imperitive verb

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The imperative verb is an action a speaker or writer wants someone else to do.

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