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Part of Speech Rev
Question | Answer |
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subject | noun or pronoun, focus of sentence |
predicate | action or linking verb, tells what sentence does or is |
noun | person, place, thing or idea |
pronoun | takes the place of a noun |
action verb | is an action that is being performed |
linking verb | connects subject with a predicate adjective or noun |
Adjective | modifies or describes a noun or pronoun |
adverb | modifies or describes a verb |
prepositional phrase | a preposition and its object, acts as adverb or adjective |
personal pronoun | have person, number, case, and gender: examples: I, me, you, he, they |
indefinite pronoun | antecedent is not know: examples: anyone, something, nobody, everyone |
antecedent | noun referred to and replaced by a pronoun |
interrogative pronoun | used to ask questions, examples: who, whose, whom, which, what |
transitive verb | action verb where they action has to be performed on something |
direct object | receives the action of the verb EX: hit the BALL |
intransitive verb | action verb that stands alone |
conjunction | joins words, phrases, or sentences |
FANBOY | coordinating conjunctions: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So |
correlating conjunctions | conjuctions that come in pairs: not only/but also, either/or, neither/no |
subordinating conjunctions | make one sentence dependent on the other: examples: because, although, since whenever |