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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Parts of Speech.

Parts of Speech

Noun: A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.

Verb: A verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being.

Pronoun: A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. You use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you" to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive.

Adjective:
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.

Adverb: An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions

Preposition: A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

Conjunction: A conjunction is a word that connects other words or groups of words.

Interjection:
An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.

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