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Parts of speech
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Noun
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Nouns express things and concepts.
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Pronoun
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A pronoun is a word that often replaces a noun phrase, other pronouns, or other
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words functioning as a noun in a sentence.
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Adjective
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Adjectives describe a noun or a pronoun.
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Preposition
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Preposition refers to words that specify location, time relation.
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Verb
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Verbs express action.
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Adverb
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An adverb tweaks the meaning of verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and sometimes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverb
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Wikipedia article.
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Determiners
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Determiners are used as modifiers of a noun phrase or words that occur before a
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noun.
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Conjunction
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Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses within a sentence.
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Interjection
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Interjections express emotion and sounds.
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