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• • • • • • • • Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections NOUNS A noun is a word or word group that is used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. • • • • • • Compound nouns: living room, Father’s Day, self-control Common nouns: book, job, story, writer Proper nouns: Debra Brown, Scrabble, New York City Concrete nouns: song, hubcap, dog Abstract nouns: loyalty, dishonor, trust Collective nouns: audience, family, batch, herd, class PRONOUNS A pronoun is a word used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns. • • • • • • • Personal pronouns: I you he it they we Reflexive pronouns: myself yourself themselves Intensive pronouns: she herself I myself Demonstrative pronouns: this that these those Relative pronouns: which that Interrogative pronouns: who which whose Indefinite: several nobody few many some ADJECTIVES An adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun. An adjective tells what kind, which one, how much, or how many. • Articles: a an the • Demonstrative adjectives: this pen that shoe these papers those desks • Common adjectives: red petite twenty • Proper adjectives: African Italian Chinese VERBS Express action or state ofbeing. ACTION VERB Expresses physic al or menta l activity. LINKING VERB Expresses sta te ofbeing and connects or lin ks the subject to words in the predicate. HELPING VERB Helps th e main verb express action or sta te ofbeing. TRANSITIVE VERB Expresses an acti on directed toward a noun. IN TRANSITIVE VERB Expresses action with out th e actio n passing to a receiv er or object. th ink seem was thin kin g wrote the answers th inks well write fe el has seemed sang a song runs fast wonder am does write hitthe ball stretc hed before th e race dream is may be ordered the book la nded after dark ADVERBS An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An adverb tells where, when, how(how often, how long, how much), or to what extent. • Adverbs end most commonly in -ly • Suddenly • Quickly • Swiftly • Slowly • Adverbs sometimes do not end in -ly • Not • Very • Rather • Quite • Too PREPOSITIONS A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word. They always are found in a prepositional phrase. THERE ARE MANY PREPOSTIONS. SEE HOW MANY ARE POSSIBLE TO USE IN THIS ONE BLANK. The tree fell ________the house. toward against near inside beyond with past over in on by CONJUNCTIONS A conjunction is a word that joins words or word groups. Coordinating conjunctions: and, or, but Subordinating conjunctions: when because since so Correlative conjunctions: either/or neither/nor INTERJECTIONS EXPRESS EMOTION