Definitions and examples of English parts of speech
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| Noun | Names a person, place, thing or idea | pen, pencil, doctor, mother, kitchen, school, park | show 🗑
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| show | specific and capitalized name of a person, place, thing, or idea | Empire State Building, Waco, Mount Vernon, "The Tell-tale Heart" | Bill Gates, S.E. Hinton, Lemony Snicket, Six Flags over Texas, Fruit Loops
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| show | a singular noun that includes many individual persons or animals | herd, flock, gaggle, team | committee, band, squad, pride (of lions)
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| Adjective | describes a noun or pronoun by telling what kind, which one, how many, and sometimes whose or how much | show | Sally's, that, these, cute, repulsive, some, many
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| Adverb | show | quickly, clumsily, efficiently, well, not, here | today, soon, never, everywhere, often, seldom, very
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| Helping verbs | show | am, is, are, was, were, have, has | could, would, should, do, does, did
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| Action verbs | words that show mental or physical action | run, slide, swim, scream, eat, skate | show 🗑
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| Linking verbs | words that link the subject with an idea about the subject | am, is, are, was, were, have been | show 🗑
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| Preposition | a word that shows time and place relationship, always in a phrase with an object and possibly modifiers | about above, according to, in front of, over, inside | show 🗑
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| Conjunction | connects words, phrases and clauses | and, or and but are the most commonly used | show 🗑
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| interjection | shows mild or strong emotion, set off by a comma or exclamation mark | oh, well, sure, yes, no, | show 🗑
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| Pronoun | show | I, you, she, themselves, this, these, some, many, both | everybody, something, no one, who, whom, what
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