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Noun
a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
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abstract
nouns that cannot be detected by your five senses (ex. bravery)
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Concrete
nouns that you can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch (ex. puppy)
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Pronoun
a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
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personal
words that represent specific people or things
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indefinite
words which replace nouns without specifying which noun they replace (ex. anybody)
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relative
a pronoun that "relates" a subordinate clause to the rest of the sentence (ex. who)
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Interrogative
a pronoun used in order to ask a question (ex. what)
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Demonstrative
a pronoun or adjective which points out which item is being referred to (ex. this)
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Verb
a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence
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linking
a verb which links or establishes a relationship between the subject and a term in the predicate which describes or renames the subject (ex. become)
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Action
verbs that express action; something a person or thing can do
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Intransitive
an action berb (neither a linking verb nor an auxiliary verb) which doesn't have a direct object
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Transitive
an action or linking verb that has a complement
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Active
verbs that perform the actions of a subject within a sentence
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passive
verbs that describe the action done by the subject of a sentence
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adjective
a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
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preposition
words which relate a noun or pronoun (called the object of the preposition) to another word in the sentence
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Conjunction
Words that join words, phrases, or sentence parts
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Interjection
a word or phrase showing emotion or surprise which has no grammatical relationship to any other words or parrt of a sentence
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