Unit 10 Grammar

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word that names a person, place, thing, or an idea
Noun
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shows possetion, owernship, or the general relasionship

Possesive Noun
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object that occupies space or that can be recognized by any of the senses
Concrete Noun
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names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic
Abstract Noun
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name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea
Proper Noun
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general not particular name of a person, place, thing, or idea
Common Noun
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sometimes considered singular and sometimes plural (rule: singular is a group; plural is an individual member of a group
Collective Noun
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takes place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, or a pronoun
Pronoun
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refers to a specific person or thing by indicating the person speaking
Personal Pronoun
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takes the place of the possesive form of a noun
Possesive Pronoun
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refers or reflects back, to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentance
Reflexive Prounoun
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adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun in the same sentance
Intensive Pronoun
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points out specific nouns
Demonstrative Pronoun
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used to form questions
Interrogative Pronoun
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used to begin a special subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause
Relative Pronoun
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refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does
Indefinate Pronoun
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words that expresses action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement
Verb
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tells what someone or something does
Action Verb
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action verb that is followed by a word or words that answers the question "what?" or "whom?"
Transitive Verb
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an action verb that is not followed by a word that answers the question "what?" or "whom?"
Intransitive Verb
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links or joins the subject of a sentence (often a noun or pronoun) with a word or expression that identifies or describes the subject
Linking Verb
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consists of a main verb and all its auxillary, or helping, verbs
Verb Phrase
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a word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning; it tells what kind, which one, how many, or how much
Adjective
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the adjectives "a", "an", and "the"; "a" and "an" are called indefinite articles; they can refer to any one of a kind of person, place, or thing; "a" is used before consonant sounds and "an" is used before vowel sounds; "the" is called a definite article; it refers to a specific person, place, or thing
Ariticle
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formed from a proper noun and begins with a capital letter
Proper Adjective
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a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more specific
Adverb
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used to clarify the relationship between clauses of equal weight in a sentence
Conjunctive Adverb
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a word that shows the relashionship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a sentence
Preposition
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phrases that end with a noun or a pronoun
Object of the Preposition
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made up of more than one word
Compound Preposition
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a word that joins single words or groups of words
Conjunctions
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joins words or groups of words that have equal gramatical weight in a sentence
Coordinating Conjunction
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work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence
Correlative Conjuntion
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joins two clauses or ideas in such a way as to make one grammatically dependent upon the other
Subordinating Conjuntion
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a word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation; an interjection has no grammatical connection to other words
Interjection