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What is an auxiliary verb?
A word that comes after a noun. There are only two main auxiliary verbs:have and has.
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What are model verbs?
A word that is showing something will happen, therefore they are predictions showing a possibility. Examples are: might, may.
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What is past continuous?
Something that you have done earlier on in life and you are willing to continue currently.
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What is the meaning of paraskevidekatriaphobia?
The fear of Friday 13th.
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What is FANBOYS?
They are coordinating conjunctions.
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What is the preposition in this sentence? I looked under my bed.
'Under' is the preposition.
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What are coordinating conjunctions?
FANBOYS=For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
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What are subordinating conjunctions?
Any other conjunctions except for 'FANBOYS'.
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What are adverbs?
An adverb is a word that describes a verb such as: climbed slowly. Climbed is the verb and slowly is the adverb..
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What is a verb?
A doing word.
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What is a suffix?
A set of letters that go at the end of a word.
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What is a prefix?
A set of letters that go at the beginning of a word.
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What is a noun phrase?
The term noun phrase refers to a group of words which act like a noun. E.g The great river. They modify a noun.
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What is a homophone?
A word that sounds the same but has a different meaning and mostly different spellings.
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What is an idiom?
An expression that doesn't exactly mean what the words say. Example: She spilled the beans.
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What is this type of figurative language: my feet ached so much it felt like I walked a million miles.
Hyperbole. Hyperbole-to exaggerate something.
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What is a stanza?
A poetic paragraph in poems, and in music a stanza is a paragraph of lyrics.
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