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Noun

Objects, people, animals or places. Events, abstract entities (e.g, Facebook, Cure, Peace). PROPER: objects. ABSTRACT: e.g.love, hate. COMMON: eg dog, girl

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Functions and Characteristics of nouns

Only nouns can be subjects. Can take possessive ('s) and plural (s) BUT some have two entries 'a fight' (NOUN) 'I fight' (ACTION VERB)

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Verbs (2 types)

MAIN: lexical- clear meaning and content e.g. 'stand', 'look'.Main verbs can indicate actions, states and processes. AUXILIARY: help other verb- I HAVE eaten, he IS swimming. adds subtle grammatical information e.g. aspect or modality

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Verb-participles

PRESENT participles - end in –ing, e.g. walking, eating. PAST participles - past form of verb, -ed or irregular past form e.g. walked, eaten

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Adjectives

Describe quality of a noun. ATTRIBUTIVE:before a noun ('a NICE man') PREDICATIVE: after a copular verb ('The man IS nice')

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Adverbs

EXPRESS MANNER- how, where, when, how often. MODIFIES ADJECTIVES- I am SO happy, I feel QUITE chuffed. MODIFIES VERBS- 'ly' e.g. cheerfully

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Pronouns

PERSONAL- e.g. I, they. DEMONSTRATIVE- e.g. this, these. INTERROGATIVE (e.g which, who) INDEFINITE (e.g none,) POSSESSIVE (e.g his, your) RECIPROCAL (e.geach other, one another)RELATIVE (eg which, where) REFLEXIVE, INTENSIVE (e.g itself, himself)

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Preposition

Relating two events/objects in location, time, or abstractly. E.g. The ball is on the grass, The presents lie under the tree

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Determiners

Before a Noun, but it is not an Adjective (so does not describe a quality). Identifies which thing/person/event.ARTICLES: the, a (apple) DEMONSTRATIVES: those (apples) QUANTIFIERS: some, any, no (apples). POSSESSIVES: my, your, one’s, John’s

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Conjunctions

Conjunctions (also known as connectives) are used to join linguistic elements together. SIMPLE COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS such as “and”, “but” and “or”. These join phrases, clauses and lists of similar items

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Only nouns can be subjects. Can take possessive ('s) and plural (s) BUT some have two entries 'a fight' (NOUN) 'I fight' (ACTION VERB)

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Functions and Characteristics of nouns

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PRESENT participles - end in –ing, e.g. walking, eating. PAST participles - past form of verb, -ed or irregular past form e.g. walked, eaten

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Describe quality of a noun. ATTRIBUTIVE:before a noun ('a NICE man') PREDICATIVE: after a copular verb ('The man IS nice')

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