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* many words can operate across or as different parts of speech | * many words can operate across or as different parts of speech | ||
** ex., an "attributive noun" acts as an adjective that modifies another noun ("'''''dog''''' food") | ** ex., an "attributive noun" acts as an adjective that modifies another noun ("'''''dog''''' food") | ||
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|+PARTS OF SPEECH | |||
!Part of Speech | |||
!Definition | |||
!Category | |||
!Other | |||
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|Adjective | |||
|modifies nouns | |||
|modifier | |||
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|- | |||
|Adverb | |||
|modifies verbs and adjectives | |||
|modifier | |||
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|Article | |||
|identifies a known or unknown noun | |||
("the" or "a"/"an") | |||
|modifier | |||
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|- | |||
|Conjunction | |||
|joins or contrasts words and sentence parts | |||
|grammatical | |||
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|- | |||
|Determiner | |||
|identifies specificity (these), quantity (five), amount (some), possession (our), sufficiency (enough) or a noun | |||
|modifier | |||
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|- | |||
|Interjection | |||
|an exclamation or abrupt remark (What?, Yes!) | |||
|grammatical | |||
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|- | |||
|Noun | |||
|a person, place or thing | |||
|grammatical | |||
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|- | |||
|Preposition | |||
|identifies a relationship between a noun or a verb and another noun ("'''''on''''' the table", "to the store") | |||
|modifier | |||
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|- | |||
|Pronoun | |||
|references a noun or a person (I, you, he/she/it, we, they, etc.) | |||
|grammatical | |||
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|Verb | |||
|indicates action or existence | |||
|grammatical | |||
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== Modifier == | == Modifier == | ||