grammar review
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GRAMMAR REVIEW
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Nouns: Person, Place, Thing, Idea
There are many different types of nouns:• Common• Proper• Concrete• Abstract• Compound • Collective
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Types of Nouns
Common Noun: names any person, place, or thing.• Worker, state, documentProper Noun: names a particular person, place, or thing.• Rob Warner, Florida, Bill of Rights
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Types of Nouns
Concrete Noun: names a person, place, or an object that you can actually see, touch, taste, hear, or smell.• Hat, fur, newspaper, children, bell.Abstract Noun: names a quality, condition, or an idea.• Love, anger, liberty, success, hope.
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Types of Nouns
Compound Nouns: nouns made up of more than one word, and can be written in different ways.• Viewpoint, stagecoach, airstrip, double-talk, brother-in-law, living room, golf course.
Collective Nouns: names a group of people or things.• Band, class, committee, family, crowd, nation, orchestra, team.
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Pronouns: take the place of one or more nouns
• The word that the pronoun replaces or refers back to is called the antecedent.
• Personal Pronouns: first, second, and third person
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Verbs: tells what action a subject is performing.
• Ice hockey began in Canada.• In baseball, home plate has five sides.• Johnny Vander Meer pitched two straight no-hitters in 1938.
• The game of soccer probably first occurred in England in A.D. 217.
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Adjectives: is a word that modifies (describes) a noun or pronoun.
Ask the following questions:• What kind?• Which one?• How many?• How much?
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Adverbs: Most adverbs modify verbs. To find an adverb, ask
the following questions• Where?• When?• How?• To what extent?
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Prepositions: shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun, or another word in the sentence.
• Above, across, against, along, among, around, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, in, inside, near, on, outside, over, through, toward, under, underneath, up, upon.
• COMPOUND PREPOSITIONS (can also be used as internal transitions): according to, ahead of, apart from, aside from, as of, because of, by means of, in back of, in front of, in place of, in spite of, instead of, in view of, next to, on account of, out of, prior to.
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Conjunctions: connect words or groups of words
• And, but, for, so, or nor, yet.• Both/and• Either/or• Neither/nor• Not only/but also• Whether/or(THESE CAN ALSO BE USED FOR INTERNAL TRANSITIONS)
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Interjections: is a word that expresses strong feeling or emotion
• Yes, Elvis Presley was once a truck driver.• Wow! That’s a really low price!• Well, I had no idea.• Imagine! No homework this weekend! Not!• Ouch! Charlie you bit me!