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What is a NOUN?
A NOUN is a word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing or an idea.
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What is a PROPER NOUN?
A PROPER NOUN names a particular person, place, thing or idea and is capitalized.
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What is COMMON NOUN?
A COMMON NOUN names any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized.
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What is a CONCRETE NOUN?
A CONCRETE NOUN names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses ( sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell ).
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What is an ABSTRACT NOUN?
An ABSTRACT NOUN names an idea, a feeling, a qualit, or a characteristic.
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What is a COMPOUND NOUN?
A COMPOUND NOUN consists of two or more words used together as a single noun. The parts of a COMPOUND NOUN may be written as one word, as seperate words, or as a hyphenated word.
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What is a PRONOUN?
A PRONOUN is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
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What is a PERSONAL PRONOUN?
A PERSONAL PRONOUN refers to the one speaking ( First Person ), the one spoken to ( Second Person ), or the one spoken about ( Third Person ).
I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.
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What is a REFLEXIVE PRONOUN?
A REFLEXIVE PRONOUN refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposistion.
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What is an INTENSIVE PROUNOUN?
An INTENSIVE PRONOUN emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function.
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What is a DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN?
A DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN is used to point out a specifc person, place, thing, or idea.
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What is an INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN?
An INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN introduces a question.
Who, whom, which, what, whose.
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What is a RELATIVE PRONOUN?
A RELATIVE PRONOUN introduces a subordinate clause.
That, which, who, whom, whose.
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What is an ADJECTIVE?
An ADJECTIVE is a word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun.
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What is a DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE?
When THIS, THAT, THESE, AND THOSE modify nouns or pronouns they are called DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES.
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What is a DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN.
When THIS, THAT, THESE, AND THOSE take the place of a noun or pronoun, they are called DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS.
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What is a VERB?
A VERB is a word that is used to express action or a state of being.
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What is a TRANSITIVE VERB?
A TRANSITIVE VERB is a verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, place, or thing. The action expressed by a TRANSITIVE VERB passes from the doer-the subject-to the receiver of the action.
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What is an INTRANSITIVE VERB?
An INTRANSITIVE VERB expresses action ( or tells something about the subject ) without the action passing to a receiver, or object.
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What is an ACTION VERB?
An ACTION VERB expresses either physical or mental action. ACTION VERBS can be transitive or intransitive.
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What is a VERB PHRASE?
A VERB PHRASE consists of at least one main verb and one or more helping verbs. A HELPING VERB helps the main verb express action or a state of being.
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What is an ADVERB?
An ADVERB modifies a verb, an adjective, or another ADVERB.
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What is a PREPOSITION?
A PREPOSITION is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word.
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What is a CONJUNCTION?
A CONJUNCTION is a word that joins words or word groups.
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What is a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION?
A COORDINATING CONJUNCTION joins words or word groups that are used in the same way.
And, but, or, nor, for, yet, so.
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What is a CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION?
A CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION are pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way.
both...and not only...but also either...or neither...nor whether...or
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