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Grammer

 

·         is the breaking down of building blocks, or parts of speech, in language, and the use of those pieces to form complete sentences.

 

Nouns

 

·         people, places, things

Proper Nouns

 

·         specific person, place, thing or idea

 

Nouns serves as the ___________ in a sentence.

 

·         Subject

 

Verbs

 

·         the action in a sentence

 

In order to have a complete, it needs both

 

·         subject and a verb

 

action verb

 

·         A verb that shows that something is being done, a word that shows action.

 

Linking Verb

 

·         includes am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, becomes, semms and sometimes words like appears, sounds, feels, looks, smells and tastes

 

When a word links the subject to a noun that renamed the subject or to an adjective that describes the sudject, it

 

·         linking verb

 

Pronouns

 

·         words, that take the place of nouns. help us avoid having to awkwardly keep repeating a person's name. Examples are I, me, he, him, she, her, it, they, we, our, ours, etc