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Parts of Speech
i^ Noun: names a person, place, thing, idea (Lulu, jail, cantaloupe, loyalty, and so on)
W Pronoun: takes the place of a noun (he, who, I, what, and so on)
u* Verb: expresses action or being (scrambled, was, should win, and so on)
v* Adjective: describes a noun or pronoun (messy, strange, alien, and so on)
A> Adverb: describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb (willingly, woefully, very, and so on)
u* Preposition: relates a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence (by, for, from, and so on)
i^ Conjunction: ties two words or groups of words together (and, after, although, and so on)
i> Interjection: expresses strong emotion (yikesi wow! ouch! and so on)
Parts of a Sentence
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Verb (also called the predicate): expresses the action or state of being
t> Subject: the person or thing being talked about
u* Complement: a word or group of words that completes the meaning of the subject-verb pair
i> Types of complements: direct and indirect objects, subject complement, objective complement
Pronouns Tips
Pronouns that may be used only as subjects or subject complements: I, he, she, we, they, who,
whoever.
Pronouns that may be used only as objects or objective complements: me, him, her, us, them, whom,
whomever.
Common pronouns that may be used as either subjects or objects: you, it, everyone, anyone, no one,
someone, mine, ours, yours, theirs, either, neither, each, everybody, anybody, nobody, somebody,
everything, anything, nothing, something, any, none, some, which, what, that.
Pronouns that show possession: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs, whose.
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Subject-Verb Agreement Tips
W Match singular subjects with singular verbs, plural subjects with plural verbs.
i* Amounts of time an