- Nouns- name persons, places, things, ideas, or qualities (ex. Capote, woman, Mississippi River, seashell, hardship, courage)
- Pronouns- usually replace nouns and function as nouns (ex. I, you, he, this, that, who, which, everyone)
- Verbs- express actions, occurences, or states of being (ex. run, write, be, appear, seem)
- Adjectives- describe or modify nouns or pronouns (ex. necessary, private, beautiful)
- Adverbs- Answer these questions: when, where, why, how, how much, or in what way? They modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs (ex. very, too, loudly, finally, yesterday, next, daringly)
- Prepositions- Relate nouns or pronouns to other words in a sentence (ex. about, to, with, around, during, in, of, within
- Conjunctions- link words, phrases, and clauses
- Coordinating Conjunctions- linds words, phrases, or clauses, of equal importance (ex. and, but, so, for, or, nor, not only...but also, either...or)
- Subordinating Conjunctions- introduce clauses that cannot stand by themselves as compete sentences and link them to main clauses (although, because, if, whenever, as, whether, in order that)
- Interjections- express feeling or command attention, either alone or in a sentence (ex. hey, oh, darn, wow, hark!)
- Articles- any of three words to signal the presence of a noun (ex. a, an, the)
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