Parts of Speech

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Pronouns

Generally (but not always) pronouns stand for (pro + noun) or refer to a noun, an individual or individuals or thing or things (the pronoun's antecedent) whose identity is made clear earlier in the text.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns1.htm

KINDS OF PRONOUNS: Personal || Demonstrative || Indefinite || Relative ||

Reflexive || Intensive || Interrogative || Reciprocal

Articles

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm

The three articles — a, an, the — are a kind of adjective. The is called the definite article because it usually precedes a specific or previously mentioned noun; a and an are called indefinite articles because they are used to refer to something in a less specific manner (an unspecified count noun).

Adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

the lugubrious lieutenant

a solid commitment

a month's pay

a six-year-old child

the unhappiest, richest man

Nouns

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Whatever exists, we assume, can be named, and that name is a noun.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm

Verbs

Verbs are an action or a state of being

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm

Adverbs

Adverbs are words that modify

(1) a verb (He drove slowly. — How did he drive?)

(2) an adjective (He drove a very fast car. — How fast was his car?)

(3) another adverb (She moved quite slowly down the aisle. — How slowly did she move?)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm

Prepositions

A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/preposition_list.htm

Single Words

about above across after against around at

before behind below beneath beside besides between beyond by

down during

except

for from

in inside into

like

near

of off on out outside over

since

through throughout till to toward

under until up upon

with without

Phrases

according to,

because of, by way of,

in addition to, in front of, in place of, in regard to, in spite of, instead of,

on account of,

out of

Conjunctions

aka Coordinating Conjunctions

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

“f a n b o y s “

, for

, and

, nor

, but

, or

, yet

, so