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English: Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions
Definitions of Parts of Speech
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| Adjective | modify noun or pronoun |
| articles | most common adjectives |
| indefinite article | refer to unspecified members of groups, people, places, things, or ideas |
| definite article | <The> refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea |
| Proper adjectives | formed from proper nouns - capitalized |
| Adverbs | modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (answer where, how, when, and to what extent) |
| intensifier | adjective that defines the degree of an adjective or another adverb. |
| preposition | shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence |
| compound prepositions | formed by more than one preposition |
| prepositional phrase | consist of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object |
| object of the preposition | the noun or pronoun that follows the proposition |
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