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Grammar

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part of speech that describes a noun eg: "It was a big dog."

What is an ADJECTIVE?

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word that modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb eg: quickly, really, very

What is an ADVERB?

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word that joins or connects two parts of a sentence eg: Ron likes tea and coffee.

What is a CONJUCTION?

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part of speech that names a person, place, thing, quality, quantity or concept

What is a NOUN?

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tense used to talk about an action or situation that occurred in the past eg: "I lived in Paris for 10 years"

What is PAST TENSE?

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of a noun or form indicating more than one person or thing. eg: bananas, spoons, trees

What is PLURAL?

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part of speech that comes before a noun phrase and shows relationship between that noun phrase and another element (relationships of time, location, purpose etc)

What is a PREPOSITION?

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standard marks such as commas, periods and question marks within a sentence eg: , . ? ! - ; :

What is PUNCTUATION?

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a ______ starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop/period (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!)

SENTENCE

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adjective or adverb that describes the extreme degree of something eg: happiest, most quickly

What is SUPERLATIVE?

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word that describes the subject's action or state. eg: (to) work, (to) love, (to) begin

What is a VERB?

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determiner that introduces a noun phrase as definite (the) or indefinite (a/an)

What is an ARTICLE?

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form of a noun is used to refer to one person or thing.

What is SINGULAR?

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expresses a higher degree of quality or attribute of an adjective or adverb. (e.g. faster, more polite)

What is COMPARATIVE?

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It can be pronounced as "for example"

What is e.g.?

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