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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, such as hear, become, happen.

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adverb

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An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb (he sings loudly), an adjective (very tall), another adverb (ended too quickly), or even a whole sentence (Fortunately, I had brought an umbrella).

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adjective

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

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noun

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A noun is a word that represents a person, thing, concept, or place (e.g., ‘John’, ‘house’, ‘affinity’, ‘river’).

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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 (e.g. and, but, if ).

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determiner

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a person or thing that determines or decides something.

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