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noun: A word used to name a person, place or thing
pronoun: Any word used in the place of a noun.
adjective: A word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
verb: A word or words in a sentence that show action or state of being.
adverb: A word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
subject: The person or thing that is being talked about, written about or studied.
plural: Talking about more than one person or thing.
singular: Talking about only one person or thing.
conjunction: A word that joins words or groups of words
parts of speech: The different jobs that words do in sentences. Some words name things, some words describe things and some words show action.
punctuation: The way of using marks or symbols in writing and printing that make the written communication clearer.
capitalization: Writing or printing with a capital, or large, letter or letters. Used to begin the first word of a sentence. Used when you are writing the name of a particular person, place or thing.
quotation marks (definition 1): Marks that show exactly what someone has said or is saying.
quotation marks (definition 2): Marks used when a word is being talked about in a sentence.
sentence (definition 2): A written group of words put together in a way that communicates a complete thought. A written sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark or exclamation point.
exclamation point: A mark that is used to show surprise, strong feeling or excitement.
exclamatory sentence: A sentence that shows surprise or strong feeling. It usually ends with an exclamation point.
Question mark: used after a sentence that asks a question. Examples: What is your name? Where is my dog?
Exclamation point : used to show surprise, strong feeling or excitement. Examples: We won the game! Wow!
Apostrophe(def. 1): used to show that something is owned or belongs to someone. This is an apostrophe: ’ Examples: the car’s tire; Maria’s bike.
Apostrophe (def. 2): Used to show that a letter or letters have been left out of a word. Examples: He cannot go. He can’t go. She is not going. She isn’t going.
Apostrophe (def. 3): Used when writing more than one of numbers, letters and words being talked about as numbers, letters There are two “e’s” in the word “bee.”
declarative sentence: A sentence that gives information but doesn’t ask for something or give an order.
imperative sentence: A sentence that asks or orders someone to do something. It usually doesn’t say the person or thing being talked to.
period: A dot used to show where the end of a sentence is.
interrogative sentence: A sentence that asks a question. It always ends with a question mark.
apostrophe (definition 1): A mark used to show that something is owned or belongs to someone.
apostrophe (definition 2): Used to show that a letter or letters have been left out of a word.
apostrophe (definition 3): Used when writing more than one of numbers, letters and words being talked about as numbers, letters or words.
paragraph: One or more sentences that are connected to each other because they are about the same main idea.
