Parts Of Speech Flashcards

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What is a noun and give 3 examples:

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A naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality or action. Study: PAPTLIQ
Hunger, thought, arrival

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What is a verb and give 3 examples:

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A word which describes an action or a state. Believe, be, patronize

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What is an adjective and give 3 examples:

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A word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun. Lovely, sweet, orange

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What is an adverb and give 3 examples:

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A word that usually describes a verb. Tells you how something is done and may also tell you when/where something happened. Well, yesterday, everywhere

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What is a pronoun and give 3 examples:

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Used instead of a noun to avoid repeating a noun. It, we, they

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What is a conjunction and give 3 examples:

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Joins two words, phrases or sentences. And, so, because

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What is an interjection and give 3 examples:

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An emotional outcry of usually one word and ends in an exclamation mark. Ouch! Help! Ha!

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What is an article and give 3 examples:

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Used to introduce a noun. The, a, an

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What is a preposition and give three examples:

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Usually becomes, a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase. Joins the noun to some other part of the sentence. By, behind, near

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