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A word that names a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
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This kind of noun names only one person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a singular noun?
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A pronoun that does not refer to any person or thing.

What is an indefinite pronoun?

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This is the word that the pronoun refers to. The pronoun must agree with this.
What is an antecedent?
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A word that modifies a verb. Many of these end with -ly.
What is an adverb?
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A noun that cannot be seen or touched. Hope is an example.
What is an abstract noun?
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A noun made up of two or more words.

What is a compound noun?

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These pronouns intoduce a question. All of them start with the letter "w."
What is an interrogative pronoun?
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A pronoun that shows ownership.
What is a possessive pronoun?
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A sentence that is made up of two main clauses. The clauses may be joined by a semincolon, a comma and conjunction, or a semicolon and conjunctive adverb.
What is a compound sentence?
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A noun that can be seen or touched
What is an concrete noun?
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These nouns are made of more than one word. They may be combined, seperated, or hyphenated.
What is a compound noun?
300

These are pronouns that refer to a person. They can be in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd form.

What is a personal pronoun?

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These pronouns relate a group of words to another word in the sentence. They are used to begin a subordinate clause.
What is a relative pronoun?
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These words are used to show time, summarize, or conclude you writing. They make writing flow more smoothly.
What are transition words?
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Examples of this type of noun include: circle, basket, George Washington, time, and paper.
What is a singular noun?
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A noun that names more than one person, place, or thing and shows ownership. Many of these end with -s and apostrophe.
What is a plural possessive noun?
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A pronoun that points something out. These can be singular or plural.

What is a demonstrative pronoun?

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This particular relative pronoun should only be used after a preposition, like to, for, or from.
What is whom?
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A phrase that begins with a preposition and ends with the object of a preposition (a noun or pronoun).
What is a prepositional phrase?
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This is a noun that, in its singular form, means more than one.

What is a collective noun?

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These nouns tell more about (or define) other nouns. In the sentence JAMIE'S SISTER KARA IS IN CLASS, Kara is one of these.
What is an appositive or appositive phrase?
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This is the definition of a pronoun.

What is a word that takes the place of a noun?

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This type of pronoun demonstrates or shows. Examples are THIS, THAT, THESE, and THOSE.

What is a demonstrative pronoun?

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These are marks that show dialogue. Writers use them to show that a character is speaking.
What are quotation marks?