| Term | Definition |
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| Noun | a word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea |
| Compound Noun | a single noun made up of 2 or more words |
| Proper Noun | names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and begins with a cap. letter |
| Common Noun | names any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas and is generally not cap. |
| Concrete Noun | a person, place, or thing that can be percieved by one or more of the senses |
| Abstract Noun | names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic |
| Collective Noun | a noun that names a group |
| Pronoun | a word that is used inplace of one or more nouns |
| Antecedent | the word or word group that is replaced by the pronoun |
| Personal Pronoun | refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about |
| Reflexive Pronoun | refers to the subject and is necessary to the meaning of the sentence |
| Intensive Pronoun | emphasizes a noun or another pronoun and is unnecessary to the meaning of the sentence |
| Yes | Are reflexive pronouns and intensive pronouns the same words? |
| Demonstrative Pronoun | points out a person, a place, a thing, or an idea |
| this, that, these, those | What are all of the demonstrative pronouns? |
| Interrogative Pronoun | introduces a question |
| Indefinite Pronoun | refers to a person, a place, a thing, or an idea that may or may not be specificly named |
| Relative Pronoun | introduces a subordinate clause |
| Adjective | a word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun |
| By telling what kind, which one, or how many | How does an adj. modify a noun or a pronoun? |
| Article | the most commonly used adjectives |
| a, an, the | What are ALL of the articles? |
| Demonstrative Adjectives | When This, THAT, THESE, and THOSE are used to modify nouns or pronouns, they are __ __. |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | When THIS, THAT, THESE, and THOSE are used alone they are __ __. |
| Proper Adjetctive | formed from a proper noun |
| Thanksgiving Dinner | Use "Thanksgiving" in a phrase to give an example of a proper adj. |
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