A type of verb. Verbs that can act as auxiliary verbs and also main verbs. There are only three of them: 'be', 'have' and 'do'. E.g. 'have' is used as a main verb in the sentence "I have a new coat"
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A type of verb. These are only ever used alongside a main verb. There are nine of them: can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, must.
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These usually give more information about the verbs, describing verbs in the same way adjectives do for nouns. E.g. "She felt 'better'", "he laughed 'loudly'". Many of these words are formed by adding -ly on the end of adjectives.
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Words that take the place of nouns. If the sentence "John gave his telephone number to Laura" is changed to "'he' gave 'it' to 'her'", 3 of these words take the place of nouns.
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An important aspect of verbs. Present and past are in English, Future isn't in English, instead we have other kinds of constructions E.g. modal auxiliary verbs "will" or "shall" to the infinitive form of the verb (I will watch tv)
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I, me, we, us
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You
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He, she, it, him, her, they, them
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Joining words, used to connect the different parts of a sentence.
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A type of conjunction. These are used when the parts of the sentence are of equal value, the most common are "and", "but" and "or".
