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5067673808Nouna person, place or thing0
5067679479Common noundog, clock, basketball etc.1
5067681820Proper nounGrand Canyon, Massachusetts, Abraham Lincoln (always capitalized)2
5067688982Collective nouna group of people, places or things; class, unit, committee, team, choir, band, orchestra, congregation, group, staff, faculty3
5067705367Abstract nounan intangible idea or quality; love, beauty, justice, freedom, hate4
5067715774Mass nounrefers to a quantity that cannot be counted; time, work, furniture, spaghetti, traffic, fire, dust etc.5
5067730060Pronounstands for a noun and the noun that it stands for is called the antecedent6
5067737213Personal pronounstands for a person or thing7
5067739050Indefinite pronoundoesn't have to refer to any particular person or thing; does not require an antecedent Ex. all, another, any, anybody, anyone, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, most, much, neither, no one, nobody, none, nothing, one, other, others, several, some, somebody, someone, something8
5067782714Reflexive pronounreflects back to someone or something else in the sentence; always ends in self; refers to the subject9
5067790301Intensive pronounalways ends with self; emphasizes a noun or a pronoun and is typically placed beside what it emphasizes10
5067797836Interrogative pronounintroduces a question11
5067801665Demonstrative pronounpoints to a particular thing Ex. that, those, these, this12
5067806423Reciprocal pronoundenotes a mutual relationship Ex. each other, one another13
5067813535Possessive pronoundenotes ownership BUT must act as a noun (typically replaces a noun Ex. his, hers, mine, ours, yours, their, its14
5067826528Relative pronounrelates one part of the sentence to another Ex. which, who, whom, that, what, whose, whatever, whomever, whoever, whichever15
5067843623Verbwords that show action or a state of being16
5067849690Main/Action verbthese carry out most of the action17
5067852331Transitive verba verb that has an object (asks whom or what of the verb)18
5067858472Intransitive verba verb that does not have an object19
5067865480Being verbverbs that express any form to be Ex. am, is, was, are, were, been, being, be, might be, has been, should have been20
5067880562Linking verbcan be either action or linking; Ex. appear, become, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, seem, small, sound, stay, taste21
5067909568Helping/Auxiliary verbjoins and helps the main verb Ex. may, be, can, do, have etc.22

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