Verbs | Nouns | Adjectives | Adverbs and Prepositions | Punctuation, "Junctions", Word Usage |
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What are the State of Being Verbs?
Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
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What is a Proper Noun?
Is a specific name for a particular person, place, or thing
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What is an adjective?
Is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. Answers the questions which one, what kind, how many, how much, or whose.
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What is an Adverb?
Is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Answers the questions where, when, how, how often, to what extent.
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What is Comma Rule 4?
Use commas to separate the parts of dates and addresses within sentences.
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What are the Helping Verbs?
Have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would, may, might, must, can, could
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What is a Common Noun?
Is the generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group
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What are the articles?
A, an, and The
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What is an Adverb Phrase?
A prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. Answers the questions where, when, how, or why.
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What is Apostrophe Rule 2?
Use an apostrophe to show that letters or numbers have been omitted from a word or expression.
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What are the Linking Verbs?
Taste, feel, smell, sound, look, appear, become, seem, grow, remain, stay
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What is Capitalization Rule 1D?
Capitalize words referring to the Deity and the Holy Scripture
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What is an adjective phrase?
A prepositional phrase that modifies a noun or a pronoun.
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What is a Preposition?
A word that shows the relationship between the noun or pronoun after it and some other word in the sentence.
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What is Coordinating and Correlative Conjunctions?
And, but, or, nor, for, yet, either-or, neither-nor, both-and, not only- but also...
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What is an action/linking verb?
Taste, feel, smell, sound, and look
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What is Capitalization Rule 2C?
Capitalize on family relationships words when they are used as names or parts of names.
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What is a Predicate Adjective?
An adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject.
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What is a prepositional phrase?
A phrase that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun object.
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What is fewer and less?
Items that can be counted; quantity of a substance.
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What is the function of a verb in the sentence?
Is a word that shows action or state of being, helps another verb, or links a word in the predicate to the subject
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What is Capitalization Rule 3?
Capitalize the titles of works
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What is an adjective?
Avail-able
Famili-ar brilli-ant fam-ous |
What is an object of a preposition?
The noun or pronoun that completes a prepositional phrase
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What is except and accept?
Excluding; to receive or to agree to
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