Parts of Speech
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 noun | names a person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | takes the place of a noun or more than one noun |
| verb | expresses action or otherwise helps to make a statement |
| adjective | modifies a noun or pronoun; answers the questions what kind, which one, how many |
| adverb | modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb; answers the questions how, when, where, to what extent |
| preposition | shows the relation of a noun or pronoun to some word in the sentence |
| conjunction | joins words or groups of words |
| interjection | expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to other words in the sentence |
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