Word Classes Flashcards

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Nouns

A

A person, place, thing, or idea

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2
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abstract noun

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names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic

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3
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collective noun

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names a group of people or things

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4
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proper noun

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names a particular person, place, thing, or idea

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5
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common noun

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A general name for a person, place, or thing

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6
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Pronoun

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Used to refer to participants in a discussion

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7
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adjective

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A word that describes a noun

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Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

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9
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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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10
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Conjunction

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A word used to join words or groups of words

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11
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Fronted adverbial

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Words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence, used to describe the action that follows.

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12
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Types of fronted adverbial

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time - after
frequency - twice
place - there
manner - softly
degree - barely
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13
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Interjunction

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expresses emotion and has no gramatical relation to the rest of the sentence

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14
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Determiner

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a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has

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15
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types of determiners

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indefinite articles
definite articles
demonstrative
Possessive determiners
Ordinals
Quantifiers
Numerals
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16
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indefinite articles

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A and An

17
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definite articles (the)

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The

18
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demonstrative pronoun

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points out a person, place, thing, or idea

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Possessive determiner

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determiner which shows who the noun belongs to, eg: her, their, my, our etc

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ordinals

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words that signal a numbered sequence of items

21
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Quantifiers

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indicate how many EX. some, all, every, each, no, none

22
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numerals

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numbers