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**Noun: ** A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns can be singular, plural, proper, general, and sometimes possessive. EX: People: mother, pilot (General), or Samm (Proper Noun) Place: Wal-Mart (Proper Noun), the park (general), and the universe Things: plate, dog, and computer (General) Ideas: hope, knowledge, and leadership Hint: nouns are things you can touch or think of, NOT things we do. **Pronoun: ** A pronoun is a word that can be put in place of a noun. There are seven different kinds of pronouns: Personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, interrogative, relative, and indefinite. Personal: __You__ and __I__ will help __her__ train.  (** I, me, mine, you, yours, we, us, ours, they, them, theirs ** ) Demonstrative: Samm ate __this__ sandwich. ( **This, that, these, those) ** Interrogative: __What__ is a state? (**What, who, which)** Reflexive: (**myself, yourself, ourselves**) Relative: The flat tire, __which__ was caused by a nail, took an hour to repair. (**Who, which, what, that**) Indefinite: __Everyone__ likes chewing gum. (**Some, all, both, each, etc.)** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Adjective ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">An adjective describes the noun, is also called a modifier. (**Blue, big, shiny, good, old, fat, etc.**) There are a few different kinds of adjectives: possessive and demonstrative. You should always put comas between three or more adjectives if you are listing the. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Possessive: That is __my__ dog. This is __his__ homework. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Demonstrative: (**These, this, that, those**) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Adverb: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">An adverb tells how you do something. Usually end in –ly, but not always. Adverbs are also modifiers. They answer the questions how, when, where, how often, and to what extent. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Soft is an adjective but if you put –ly at the end of the word you get softly which is an adverb. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Adverbs also deal with time such as in this sentence: I __always__ do my homework. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">**Preposition** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A preposition is a word that describes the where and when. Prepositional phrases can be either adverbial or adjectival. Adverbial prepositions modify the verb, while adjectival pronouns modify the noun. (Prepositions: to, by, at, under, and over) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Adjective: Their house development has a picnic area __for the residents. < for the residents__ modifies the noun area <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Adverbial: The exhausted tennis player sat __on the grass__. <__on the grass__ modifies the verb sat. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Conjunction: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A conjunction is a word that connects independent clauses. “FANBOYS” are examples of coordinating conjunctions. There are two other kinds of conjunctions: Correlative and subordinating. Correlative conjunctions use two or more words to connect clauses. (both/and, neither/nor, so/as, and not only/but also) Subordinating conjunction connects the dependent clause to the independent clause.(shows time, manner, cause, condition, comparison, and purpose) dependent clauses cannot stand alone. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">For <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">And <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Nor <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">But <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Or <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Yet <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">So <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Coordinating: I made waffles, __but__ I ate them all. Correlative: __Not only__ were we waffle less, __but__ we were __also__ cold. Subordinating: __Because__ the waffles are expensive, we cannot buy them. <in this sentence the dependent clause is the “Because the waffles are expensive” this sentence cannot be put on its own so you put we cannot afford to buy them.
 * <span style="color: #365f91; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Parts of Speech **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Interjection: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Interjections are used to emphasize on emotions. Most times they stand alone but some are separated by a comma. Interjections are also mainly used in dialogue. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wow! This is an amazing grammar guide. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Oh my gosh, a taking muffin!

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Verb: ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">﻿ ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">A verb can be referred to as the Acton word, but not all verbs are actions. There are two kinds of verbs: linking, and action verbs. Verbs MUST agree with its subject (tense). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Action verbs: He __ran__ to the house. She __ate__ a lot of food. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Some action verbs are mentally doing something rather than physically doing something. Jan __thought__ about his day. Linking verbs are verbs that connect a noun or pronoun with words. Samm was the best waffle ever. <In this sentence, the verb is “was”. Was links best waffle to Samm.

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