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Structures, purposes, & patterns
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200

This type of conjunction includes for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

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coordinating conjunctions?

200

This purpose is indicated by a question mark.

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the interrogative purpose?

200

These are the eight parts of speech.

What are noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, adjective?

200

These are the four sentence structures.

What are simple, compound, complex, compound-complex?

200

This is a word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.

What is a verb?

400

This replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.

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a pronoun?

400

This purpose always has an "understood" you as the subject.

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the imperative purpose?

400

These are the seven sentence patterns.

What are S-Vi, S-Vt-DO, S-Vl-PN, S-Vl-PA, S-Vt-IO-DO, S-Vt-DO-OCN, S-Vt-DO-OCA ?

400

These are the five principle parts of verbs?

What are infinitive, present, past, present participle, past participle?

400

This modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, qualifying, or limiting.

What is an adjective?

600

These modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.

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adverbs?

600

This structure includes a FANBOY and at least two independent clauses.

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the compound structure?

600

These are the linking verbs.

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

600

These are the noun usages (SPIDO PONA).

What are Subject Noun, Possessive Noun Adjective, Indirect Object, Direct Object, Object of the Preposition, Predicate Nominative, Object Complement Noun, Noun of Direct Address, Appositive?

600

This is a word used to connect words, phrases or clauses together.

What is a conjunction?

800

These answer the questions: 

what kind? how many? which? or whose?

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adjectives?

800

These are the five parts of a sentence.

What are subject, verb, capital letter, end mark, and complete sense?

800

These are the helping verbs.

What are do, does, did, has, have, had, am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been, may, must, might, should, could, would, shall, will, can?

800

This is how you conjugate the verb "to be". 

(Infinitive, present, past, present participle, past participle)

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infinitive - to be

present - am, are, is

past - was, were

present participle - being

past participle - been

800

This is a word or phrase used as a strong expression of feeling or emotion.

What is an interjection?

1000

These relate a noun or pronoun to another word.

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prepositions?

1000

This is the amount of sentences that can be made by combining the structures, purposes, and patterns. ( # of structures x # of purposes x # of patterns = ? )

What is 112 sentences?

1000

These are the prepositions.

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about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, atop, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, concerning, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, regarding, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon, with, within, without?

1000

These are the indefinite pronouns.

What are all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, more, most, neither, nobody, none, one, other, several, some, somebody, someone, such?

1000

This is the definition of a preposition.

What relates a noun or pronoun to another word?