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NounsAsheville

cats

places

hero

things

love

Romeo and Juliet

transformers

people

dishes

pizza

guilt

idea

George Bush

Nouns

• A noun is – a person, place, thing or idea

• A common noun– begins with a lower case letter– is a general term or name for an item

• A proper noun– begins with a capital letter– is a specific name

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Pronouns

it

who

what

heherself

themselves

she

those

whom

you

each

their

all

both

thisthat

Pronouns• A pronoun

– takes the place of a noun

• Types of pronouns– Personal

• I, you, he, she, them, his, ours– Reflexive

• myself, yourself, himself, themselves– Relative

• That, which, who, whom, whose– Interrogative

• Which? Whose? What? Whom? Who?– Demonstrative

• This, that, these, those– Indefinite

• Each, either, neither, no one, much, any, everybody

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Adjectives

short

tall

lonely

intelligentbeautiful

fancy

foggy

green

nice

handsome

loud

hateful

sunny

dainty

crazycrisp

color size

quality appearance

Adjectives

• An adjective– modifies a noun (I have a green pen.)– modifies a pronoun (They are happy.)– Answers the following questions:

• Which one? How many? What kind?

• A proper adjective– is a proper noun used to describe another noun

(American flag, Italian dressing, Shakespearean sonnet)

• The articles a, an, and the are actually adjectives

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VERBScan

laughing

looks

jumpam

thinkhave said

want

tastes

washed

smile

was

seems

Is

Verbs

• A verb– shows an action or helps to make a statement

• An action verb– shows action

• A linking verb– links two words together

• A helping verb– “helps” the main verb– comes before the main verb

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Infinitives

• The Infinitive

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Adverbs

not

very

often

sonever

calmly

slyly

frequently

heroically

lately

too

really

hurriedly

Adverbs

• An adverb answers the following questions:– How? --Where?– When --To what

extent?• An adverb modifies

– adjectives– verbs– other adverbs

• Not is always an adverb

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Prepositions

into

behind

through

tofrom

with

inside

above

at

of

under

out

toward

between

around

away from

Prepositions

• A preposition– shows a relationship

between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence

• Location, location, location

• Relation, relation, relation

The money changed hands under the table.

The cow jumped over the moon.

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Conjunctions

both/and

yet

since

and

for

nor

not only/but also

but

after

or

so

because

Conjunctions

• A conjunction– joins words, phrases, and clauses

• Types of conjunctions– Coordinating

• FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)

– Subordinating• Start dependent clauses (and therefore must be followed by

a subject and verb).• After, since, before, while, because, although, so that, if,

when, whenever, as, even though, etc.

– Correlative• Not only/but also, neither/nor, either/or, both/and

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Interjections

wow

bravo

dang

well

duh

hooray

yippee

drat

yuck

oh

thanks

Interjections

• An interjection is a word that

– shows excitement or emotion– is not grammatically connected to the rest of

the sentence

• An interjection is punctuated with – an exclamation mark !– or a comma ,

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