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Pronouns

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He,she,I, you

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Comparative adjectives

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Comparing, ER = smaller, bigger, more (in front)

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Superlatives

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Most exaggerated form, EST = biggest, smallest, most

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Proper nouns

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Requires capital letters

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Concrete nouns

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Things, objects you can touch, concepts, qualities

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Abstract noun

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Feelings, ideas e.g elegance

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Base adjective/adverb

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Modifies another word e.g big, interesting, carefully

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Dynamic verbs

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Action. E.g said/teach

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Modal verb

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Must, can, should

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Stative verb

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Think or feel e.g considered, heard,seen

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Intensifier adverb

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Emphasis e.g so, very, totally

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Manner adverb

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Quietly, loudly, slowly (how verb is done)

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Time adverb

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Yesterday, morning (when verb is done)

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Place adverb

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Over there,bin,under (where verb is done)

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Determiner

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Number of nouns e.g various

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Articles determiner

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Something definite or indefinite

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Possessive determiner

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Ownership e.g my, your, her, our

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Quantifiers

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Specific or non-specific quantity of noun e.g one, two, some, many

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Co-ordinating conjunction

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And, but, or yet

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Sub-ordinating conjunction

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Because, although, while, for

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Fillers

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Er, em

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Interjections

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Expression

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Conditional clause

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‘If’ there’s a choice

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Euthanism

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More socially accepted word

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Dyphanam

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Blunt, direct words

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Connotations

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Implied meaning of words

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Demotations

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The actual meaning of words

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Synonyms

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Roughly same meaning but different word

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Antonyms

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Opposite meanings e.g true and false

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Pre-modification

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Extra information about nouns

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Synthetic personalisation

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‘You’ creates relationship between reader & writer (advert)

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Contraction

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Do no = Don’t

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Endinic

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End word