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35 Cards in this Set
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Subject
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Tells whom or what the sentence is about
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Predicate
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Tells something about the subject of a sentence
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Compound Subject
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Consists of two or more subjects that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same verb
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Compound Verb
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Consists of two or more verbs that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same subject
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Declarative Sentence
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Makes a statement and ends with a period
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Imperative Sentence
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Gives a command or makes a request. Most end with a period. A strong command ends with an exclamation point
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Interrogative Sentence
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Asks a question and ends with a question mark
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Exclamatory Sentence
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Shows excitement or expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point
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Noun
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A word or word group that is used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea
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Collective Noun
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A word that names a group
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Concrete Noun
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Names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell)
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Pronoun
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A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns
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Demonstrative Pronoun
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Points out a person, a place, a thing, or an idea
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This That These Those
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Demonstrative Pronouns
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Reflexive Pronoun
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Refers to the subject and is necessary to the meaning of the sentence
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Intensive Pronoun
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Emphasizes a noun or another pronoun and is unnecessary to the meaning of the sentence
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Interrogative Pronoun
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Introduces a question
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What Which Whose Whom Who
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Interrogative pronouns
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Relative Pronoun
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Introduces a subordinate clause
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That Which Whose Whom Who
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Relative Pronouns
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Adjective
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A word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun
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What kind Which one or ones How much how many
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?'s adjectives answer
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Articles
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The most commonly used adjectives
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A An The
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Articles
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Verb
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A word that expresses action or a state of being
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Action Verb
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A verb that expresses either physical or mental activity
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Linking Verb
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A verb that expresses a state of being. Connects, or links, the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject
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Transitive Verb
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A verb that expresses an action directed towards a person, a place, a thing, or an idea
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Intransitive Verb
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Expresses action (or tells something about the subject) without the action passing to a receiver, or object
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Adverb
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A word that modifies a verb, and adjective, or another verb
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Where When How How often or how long To what extent or how much
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?'s adverbs answer
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Preposition
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A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word
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Conjunctions
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A word that joins words or word groups
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For And Nor But Or Yet So
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Conjunctions
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Interjection
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A word that expresses emotion
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