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| word used to name person, place, or thing |
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| names a group of persons, places, or things, and is not capitalized |
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| names a particular person, place, or thing and is always capitalized |
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| a word used in place of one or more than one noun. |
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| the word that a pronoun refers to and gives the pronoun meaning |
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| a pronoun that refers to one of the three possible ways of making statements. |
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| the -self, -selves forms of personal pronounds |
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| used to introduce adjective clauses. |
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| used to point out a specific person or thing |
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| not referring to a definite person or thing, frequently used without antecedents |
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| modifies (describes) a noun or pronoun |
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| three most used adjectives: an, a, the |
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| word that expresses action or otherwise helps to make a statement |
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| helps main verb fit in the sentence |
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| verb that helps to make a statement not by expressing action, but serving as a link between two words. |
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| a word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb |
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| joins single words or groups of words of the same kind. |
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| connects items of the same kind, and are always used in pairs |
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| word that shows relationship of a noun, or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence |
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| exclamatory sentence that expresses emotion. no gramatical relation to the rest of the sentence. often end in an exclamation point |
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| 3 questions adjectives ask |
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| what kind, which one, how many? |
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| 4 questions adverbs answer |
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| where, when, how, to what extent? |
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