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noun

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a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea; example: boy, Juan, river, Texas

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common noun

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names any person place, thing or idea; example: pilot, city, park

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proper noun

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names a particular person, place, thing, or idea; example: Amelia Earhart, Chicago, Katmai National Park

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singular noun

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names one person, place, or thing; example: principal, cafeteria, stereos

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plural noun

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names more than one person, place, or thing; example: principals, switches, communities, toys, leaves, roofs, radios, potatoes, feet, sheep

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possessive noun

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noun that shows ownership or possession

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singular possessive noun

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shows ownership by one person or thing; example: my aunt’s house

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plural possessive noun

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shows ownership by more than one person or thing; example: my friends’ parents

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pronoun

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takes the place of one or more noun; example: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, it

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antecedent

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when using pronoun, the noun to which it refers; example: HE heard. NICHOLAS heard. // pronouns should agree with number and gender; example: NICHOLAS heard a LIBRARIAN tell STORIES.

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subject pronoun

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used as a subject or part of a the subject in a sentence; WE are ready to go.

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object pronoun

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is used as a direct/indirect object in a sentence; example: Rebecca gave ME a gift.

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possessive pronoun

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shows ownership or possession of something; example: Jerome is learning about HIS ancestors.

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reflexive pronoun

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usually refers to the subject of a sentence; examples: myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves

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indefinite pronoun

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a pronoun that does not refer to a specific, person, place, thing, or idea; examples: everyone, everything, everybody, anybody, many, most, few, each, some, someone, all, nothing, nobody, and no one

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who

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use as a subject pronoun; example: _____ is not going?

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whom

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use as an object pronoun; example: To _____ am I speaking?

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adjective

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a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun; example: We saw LAZY lions beneath a SHADY tree.

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articles

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adjectives ‘a,’ ‘an,’ and ‘the’

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proper adjective

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an adjective that is formed from a proper noun; example: Africa

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demonstrative adjective

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tells which one; examples: this, that, these, and those

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predicate adjective

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an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject of a sentence; includes forms of taste, look, feel, smell, appear, seem, and become; example: I look TIRED, but I feel FINE.

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positive adjective

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adjective used when no comparison being made; example: This is a HOT day.

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comparative adjective

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an adjective used to compare two items; example: Today is HOTTER than yesterday.

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superlative adjective

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an adjective used to compare three or more items; example: This is the HOTTEST day of the year.

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action verb

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tells what the subject of a sentence does or did; example: She SLEEPS every day. She SLEPT every day.

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linking verb

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joins the subject and the predicate

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verb phrase

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contains the main verb and helping verbs

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main verb

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the most important verb in a phrase

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helping verb

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is not the main verb in a phrase; are added to another verb to make the meaning clearer; includes any forms of TO BE

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present / present participle

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play / (is, are, am) playing

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past / past participle

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played / (have, has, had) played

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verb tense

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verb that tells the time of the action or being

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present tense

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verb that tells something that is happening now; example: Dena LAUGHS at the jokes.

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past tense

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verb that tells something that happened in the past; example: Dena LAUGHED at the jokes.

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future tense

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tells that something will happen in the future; uses WILL with the verb; example: Dena WILL LAUGH at the jokes.

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present perfect

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tense with the past participle and helping verb HAVE and HAS

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past perfect

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tense with the past participle and helping verb HAD

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future perfect

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tense with the past participle and helping verb WILL HAVE

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irregular verb

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does not end with -ed to form the past participle; examples; (is, are, am / was / were) ; (has, have / had / had) ; (do, does / did / done) ; ate, grown, bought, sold, spent, taken, etc.

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direct object

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noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb; tells who or what receives the action; example: Bobby loved his PARENTS.

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indirect object

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tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done; example: Jack showed the DOG kindness.

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predicate nominative

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noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject; example: Lassie has been a CELEBRITY for decades.

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transitive verb

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action verb followed by a noun or pronoun that receives the action; example: I KNOW the story.

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intransitive verb

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includes all linking verbs and any action verbs that do not take an object; example: My friends CRIED.

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adverb

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words that describes verbs, adjectives, or other

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comparative adverb

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adverbs such as lower, nearer, more slowly; faster, more seriously

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superlative adverb

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adverbs such as lowest, nearest, most slowly; fastest, most seriously

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negatives

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words that mean no; common negatives: no, not, never, nowhere, nothing, nobody, no one, neither, scarcely, barely; use only one in a sentence

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preposition

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shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence; example: I walked ALONG the beach.

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object of the preposition

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is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition; example: The sands of the BEACH were white.

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prepositional phrase

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is made up of a preposition, the object of the preposition, and all the words in between: example: Who lives IN THAT HOUSE?

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adjective phrase

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prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun; examples: The killer whale is a species of PORPOISE. (tells what kind of species) or That whale WITH THE UNUSUAL MARKINGS is our favorite. (tells which whale)

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adverb phrase

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prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb; examples: The porpoises performed WITH EASE. (tells how) or Shows begin ON THE HOUR. (tells when)

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conjunction

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connects words or word groups

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coordinating conjunction

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AND, BUT, and OR join ideas that are similar; remember to place a comma before you write sentences; example: Craig gets in trouble, BUT he usually gets out of it.

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correlative conjunction

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EITHER/OR, NEITHER/NOR, BOTH/AND join pairs of ideas

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subordinating conjunction

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connects an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses; examples: since, before, unless, however

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interjections

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a word or group of words that expresses strong feeling; example: WELL, Snoopy is at the typewriter again.

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infinitive

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a verb that functions as a noun or adjective; the word TO precedes the verb in an infinitive; example: Someday, I would like TO WRITE beautiful poetry.

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infinitive phrase

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phrase that includes the infinitive, it’s objects, and the objects modifiers

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gerund

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a verb ending in -ing and functions as a noun; example: ESTIMATING is an important mathematics skill.

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gerund phrase

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includes the gerund, its object, and its object’s modifiers; WRITING A BEST SELLER is the goal of every novelist.

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participle

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verb that functions as an adjective; example: A RUNNING horse galloped down the road.

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participle phrase

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phrase that includes the participle, its modifier, and its objects; example: The child, FLASHING A MISCHIEVOUS SMILE, turned and walked away.

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collective noun

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common noun that names a group with more than one member; examples: jury, brigade, staff

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mass noun

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a common noun that cannot be easily separated into countable units; examples: water, sand, gold, cement, air

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demonstrative pronoun

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points out particular person, place, or things

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indefinite pronoun

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points out person, places, or things, but less clearly;

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interrogative pronoun

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pronoun that asks a question; examples: who, whom, whose, what, which

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reflexive pronoun

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pronoun that ends in -self or -selves

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concrete noun

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names things you can see and touch; examples: pizza, kitten, diamond

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abstract noun

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names an idea, quality, action, or feeling

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intensive pronoun

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emphasizes its antecedent; adds emphasis to pronoun or named noun; examples: I MYSELF will go.

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personal pronoun

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takes the place of a noun or nouns; they show number and gender; example: singular: I, me, my, mine, you, your, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its / plural: we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours, they, them, their, theirs

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relative pronoun

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linked group of words preceding noun or pronoun; examples: who, which, that

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common prepositions

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about, behind, above, across, as, after, between, beyond, beside, despite, during, for, inside, in, near, off, outside, onto, opposite, around, against, along, at, before, below, beneath, but, by, down, except, from, into, like, out, over, of, opposite, past, toward, under, upon within, since, through, until, underneath, with

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common articles

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a, and, the

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coordinating conjunctions

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for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

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parts of speech

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adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, pronouns, prepositions, verbs

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types of nouns

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common, proper, compound, collective

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types of verbs

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action, linking, helping, phrases

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types of helping verbs

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do, does, did, have, has, had, shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might, must

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common linking verbs

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be, feel, grow, seem, smell, remain, appear, sound, stay, look, taste, turn, become, am, are, is, was, were, am being, can be, have been

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types of adjectives

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common, proper, compound, articles, indefinite articles

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types of indefinite articles

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another, each, neither, many, all, more, other, both, either, few, several, any, most, some

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common adverbs (non -ly)

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afterward, already, quick, hard, never, today, even, low, rather, tomorrow, how, now, then, yesterday, late, often, almost, back, long, soon, when, here, next, still, where, far, more, slow, too, fast, near, so

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common pronouns

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I, me, mine, my, we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours, he, she, him, her, his, it, them, them, their, theirs, its

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types of demonstrative pronouns

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this, that, these, those

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types of indefinite pronouns

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anything, no one, all, some, several

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