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Gerund
- a verb type word acting as a noun grammatically
- ex) "hunting is my hobby"
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types of pronouns
- personal
- reflexive
- relative
- interrogtive
- indefinite
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reflexive pronouns
_____self
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relative pronoun
who, whom, whose, that
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indefinite
somebody, nobody
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types of verbs
- action or state
- transitive
- copula
- auxiliary
- models
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transitive verb
- takes a direct object
- drink milk
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copula verbs
- linking verb
- to be
- contractible with subject or not
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auxiliary verb
- helping verb
- to be, to do, to have
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model verbs
- second auxiliary verb forms of can, may, will, must, should, could
- contractible with subject or not
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reasons a copula cannt be contracted
- if verb is the 1st or last word
- if verb is in the past tense
- if the verb is already contracted with a negative
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past progressive verbs
ongoing action
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infinitive verbs
- not doing the real verbing
- "I want to go..."
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participle
when ending of a 2 word verb is in itself acting like an adjective
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adjectives
- modify nouns
- comparitive - bigger
- superlative - biggest
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conjunctions
def
2 types
- connecting words
- coordinating and subordinating
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coordinating conjunction
- connects two independent clauses
- compound sentences
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subordinating conjunctions
introduce dependent clauses
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prepositions
indicate place (under) or movement (across)
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articles
- definite (the, every)
- indefinite (a, an, some)
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demonstratives
ex) this, that, these, those
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tag questions
- "were going to pizza tonight, right?"
- "aren't we?"
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combine simple sentences
conjoining using coordinating conjunctions
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change word order
- interrogative reversal for question
- passives
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add/delete words
'not' to make negatives
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