English Quiz on Parts of speech (Burke)
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- NOUN
- Person, place, thing
- Subject
- Thing doing the action or being described
- direct object
- recieves action of verb
- indirect object
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to whom the action is done
(before D.O.) - object of preposition
- noun following a preposition
- predicate noun
- follows linking verb, restates the subject
- Noun of Direct Address
- person directly addressed in a sentence
- Appositive
- restates a noun; set off by commas
- Adjective
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modify nouns and pronouns
Article- the, an, a
Pronoun- this, that, these, those,his, hers, my, your, our,their - Adverbs
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modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs
when? where? how? to what extent? - Nominative (subjective) Case
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(S, PN)
Sing.-I, you, he, she, it
Pl.- We, you, they - Objective Case
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(D.O, I.O, O.P)
sing.-me, you, him, her, it
pl- us, you, them - Pronouns
- a word that replaces a noun
- Interjections
- add feeling or emotion to a sentence
- Conjuctions
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join a grammatical construction to another
coordinating-or, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
correlative-work in pairs,both..and, either..or,neither..nor,not only..but also
conjunctive adverbs- join sentences+answer question of adverb, set off by semicolon
addition:also, inaddition,furthermore
contrast:however,nevertheless, otherwise
case+affect:therfore,consequently,thus