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     3  Parts of speech

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     8 Noun

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    11 Nouns express things and concepts.

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    13 Pronoun

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    16 A pronoun is a word that often replaces a noun phrase, other pronouns, or other

    17 words functioning as a noun in a sentence.

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    19 Adjective

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    22 Adjectives describe a noun or a pronoun.

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    24 Preposition

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    27 Preposition refers to words that specify location, time relation.

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    29 Verb

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    32 Verbs express action.

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    34 Adverb

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    37 An adverb tweaks the meaning of verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and sometimes

    38 full clauses.

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    40   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverb

    41     Wikipedia article.

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    43 Determiners

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    46 Determiners are used as modifiers of a noun phrase or words that occur before a

    47 noun.

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    49 Conjunction

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    52 Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses within a sentence.

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    54 Interjection

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    57 Interjections express emotion and sounds.

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