Parts of Speech

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What is a Noun?

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A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, and things.

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What is a Verb?

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A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.

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What is a Pronoun?

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A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.

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What is a Conjunction?

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A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

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What is an Interjection?

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An exclamation, especially as a part of speech.

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What is an Adjective?

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A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

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What is an Adverb?

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A word that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, or degree.

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What is a Preposition?

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A word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.

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What is a Subject in a sentence?

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The part of a sentence or clause that indicates what it is about, typically a noun or pronoun.

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What is a Predicate in a sentence?

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The part of a sentence or clause that tells what the subject does or is, usually containing a verb.