| Term | Definition |
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| sentence | a group of words that expresses a complete thought. |
| two parts of a sentence | subject and predicate. |
| verb | a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being. |
| common noun | a general name for a person, place, thing or idea. |
| possessive form of a noun | shows ownership or relationship. |
| object of a preposition | the noun or pronoun following the preposition. |
| pronoun | a word that is used in place of a noun or another pronoun. |
| personal pronoun | a pronoun such as we, I, he, them, and it. |
| direct object | a word or group of words that names the reciever of the action of an atction verb. |
| indirect object | a word or goup of words that tells to whom or what an action is performed. |
| linking verb | links its subject to a word in the predicate. |
| four basic parts of a verb | past, past participle, present, present participle. |
| adjective | a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun. |
| adverb | a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. |
| conjunction | a word used to join words or group of words. |
| gerund | a verbal that ends in -ing and acts as a noun. |
| participle | a verb form that acts as an adjective. |
| infinitive | a verb form that usually begins with the word to and acts as a noun, adjective, or an adverb. |
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