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What is a verb?
A doing word / describes an action...Example: Caine always runs to school
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What is an adjective?
An adjective is a descriptive word that describes a noun (pretty, happy, silly, sunny)
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What is a noun?
A noun is a name of a person, place or thing.
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What is personification?
Personification is when you give something human characteristics.
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What is a conjunction?
A word which connects other groups of words together, i.e. and, but, because.
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What is a sentence?
A sentence is a set of words built around a main verb, starting with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or equivalent punctuation mark.
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What are the 6 different text trypes?.
Recount, report, Instruction, explanation, persuasion and discussion.
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What are the three sentence types?
Simple, compound and complex
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What is a compound sentence?
A compound sentence is built from two or more simple sentences, joined by a conjunction such as ‘and’ or ‘but’.
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What is a simple sentence?
A simple sentence is built from the minimum of a subject and a main verb. It can be very short in length but doesn't have to be.
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What is a complex sentence?
A complex sentence is built from a simple sentence which is added to a second group of words that are also built around a main verb
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What is an adjective?

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An adjective is a descriptive word that describes a noun (pretty, happy, silly, sunny)

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What is a noun?

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What is personification?

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What is a conjunction?

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