Word Classes Flashcards

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Verb

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a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence

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Adjective

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a word naming an attribute of a noun

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Adverb

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An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence

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Proper noun

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

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Pronoun

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Pronouns are words like ‘I’, ‘she’, and ‘they’ that are used in a similar way to nouns

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Preposition

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A preposition is 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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Conjunction

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

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Modal Verb

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an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility.

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Imperative Verb

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

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Noun

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A noun refers to a person,animal or thing.

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