8 Parts of Speech – Definitions – Flashcards
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noun
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names a person, place, thing, or idea
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adjective
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modifies a noun or a pronoun and answers these questions: which? what kind of? how many?
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adverb
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modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb and answers these questions: when? where? how? how much? why?
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pronoun
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is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns
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preposition
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shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence
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interjection
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expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence
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verb
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expresses an action or a state of being
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conjunction
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joins words or groups of words (phrases or clauses)
