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| Noun | a person, place, thing, or idea |
| Common Nouns | a word that names any person, place, or thing. |
| Proper Nouns | a word that names a specific person, place, or thing. |
| Singular Nouns | name one person, place, or thing |
| Plural Nouns | name two or more people, places, or things. |
| Collective Nouns | names a group of people, places, or things. |
| Possessive Nouns | shows ownership. |
| Concrete Nouns | a noun that can be seen or touched. |
| Abstract Nouns | a noun that cannot be seen or touched. |
| Pronoun | takes the place of a noun. |
| Personal Pronouns | name the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person or thing spoken about. |
| Possessive Pronouns | a pronoun that shows ownership or possession |
| Interrogative Pronouns | introduces a question |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | point out a specific person, place, thing, or idea |
| Indefinite Pronouns | refer generally, not specifically, to people, places, or things. |
| Reflexive Pronouns | refers to the subject and is necessary for the meaning of the sentence. |
| Adjective- | a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. Modifies means to describe the word or make its meaning more definite. An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun in three ways: |
| Demonstrative Adjectives | Describe nouns by telling “which one” or “which ones”. Include this, that, these, and those |
| Common Adjectives- | Describe a noun or pronoun and do not begin with a capital letter |
| Proper adjectives | Formed from a proper noun and begins with a capital letter. |
| Comparative Adjectives | describes a comparison between two things, people, places, or actions. |
| Superlative Adjectives | describes a comparison between three or more things, people, places, or actions. |
| Verb | a word that expresses action or a state of being. |
| Action Verb | expresses physical or mental action. It shows what someone or something does, did, or will do. |
| Helping Verb | helps the main verb (the verb expressing the action) to express the action or state of being. |
| Linking Verb | links or connects the subjects with a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective in the predicate. |
| Transitive Verb | is an action verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, place, thing, or idea. Transitive verbs pass the action from the doer to the receiver (objects). |
| Intransitive Verb | expresses action or tells something about the subject without passing the action on to the receiver. |
| State of Being Verb | does not refer to an action; they simply tell what the subject is. |
| Adverb | a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. |
