Parts of Speech Definitions

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noun

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a person, place, thing, or idea

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subject

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the who or what the sentence is about

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verb

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a word that expresses an action or a state of being

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predicate

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the part of the sentence that tells what the subject does or is

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The subject of a sentence can be

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a noun or a pronoun.

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A simple sentence is also called

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an IC or independent clause.

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An independent clause is also a

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simple sentence.

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A simple sentence has a

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subject and predicate.

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Proper noun

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are capitalized and NAME a specific person, place, thing.

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Common nouns

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are everyday nouns - not capitalized.