5067673808 | Noun | a person, place or thing | 0 | |
5067679479 | Common noun | dog, clock, basketball etc. | 1 | |
5067681820 | Proper noun | Grand Canyon, Massachusetts, Abraham Lincoln (always capitalized) | 2 | |
5067688982 | Collective noun | a group of people, places or things; class, unit, committee, team, choir, band, orchestra, congregation, group, staff, faculty | 3 | |
5067705367 | Abstract noun | an intangible idea or quality; love, beauty, justice, freedom, hate | 4 | |
5067715774 | Mass noun | refers to a quantity that cannot be counted; time, work, furniture, spaghetti, traffic, fire, dust etc. | 5 | |
5067730060 | Pronoun | stands for a noun and the noun that it stands for is called the antecedent | 6 | |
5067737213 | Personal pronoun | stands for a person or thing | 7 | |
5067739050 | Indefinite pronoun | doesn'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, something | 8 | |
5067782714 | Reflexive pronoun | reflects back to someone or something else in the sentence; always ends in self; refers to the subject | 9 | |
5067790301 | Intensive pronoun | always ends with self; emphasizes a noun or a pronoun and is typically placed beside what it emphasizes | 10 | |
5067797836 | Interrogative pronoun | introduces a question | 11 | |
5067801665 | Demonstrative pronoun | points to a particular thing Ex. that, those, these, this | 12 | |
5067806423 | Reciprocal pronoun | denotes a mutual relationship Ex. each other, one another | 13 | |
5067813535 | Possessive pronoun | denotes ownership BUT must act as a noun (typically replaces a noun Ex. his, hers, mine, ours, yours, their, its | 14 | |
5067826528 | Relative pronoun | relates one part of the sentence to another Ex. which, who, whom, that, what, whose, whatever, whomever, whoever, whichever | 15 | |
5067843623 | Verb | words that show action or a state of being | 16 | |
5067849690 | Main/Action verb | these carry out most of the action | 17 | |
5067852331 | Transitive verb | a verb that has an object (asks whom or what of the verb) | 18 | |
5067858472 | Intransitive verb | a verb that does not have an object | 19 | |
5067865480 | Being verb | verbs that express any form to be Ex. am, is, was, are, were, been, being, be, might be, has been, should have been | 20 | |
5067880562 | Linking verb | can be either action or linking; Ex. appear, become, feel, grow, look, prove, remain, seem, small, sound, stay, taste | 21 | |
5067909568 | Helping/Auxiliary verb | joins and helps the main verb Ex. may, be, can, do, have etc. | 22 |
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