Question 1

Noun

Accepted Answer

a person, place, thing, or idea

Question 2

Pronoun

Accepted Answer

a word that is used in place of a noun in order to avoid repetition

Question 3

Adjective

Accepted Answer

a word that modifies a noun or pronoun

Question 4

Adverb

Accepted Answer

a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb

Question 5

Verb

Accepted Answer

an action word or state of being (to be: is, are, am, etc.)

Question 6

Preposition

Accepted Answer

a word or phrase that shows the relationship between other words in a sentence, often revealing direction, location, time, and/or space

Question 7

Conjunction

Accepted Answer

a word used to join words, phrases, or clauses, indicating the relationship between the joined elements

Question 8

Coordinating Conjunction

Accepted Answer

conjunctions that connect grammatically EQUAL elements using FANBOYS

Question 9

Correlative Conjunction

Accepted Answer

conjunctions that work in pairs to join words, such as: either/or, not only/but also, neither/nor, etc.

Question 10

Subordinating Conjunction

Accepted Answer

conjunctions that connect clauses that are not equal (dependent and independent), typically appearing at the beginning of dependent clauses in a sentence

Question 11

Interjection

Accepted Answer

a word used to express emotion

Question 12

Article

Accepted Answer

words that define a noun as specific (the) or unspecific (a/an)

Question 13

Definite Article

Accepted Answer

THE: limits the meaning to one particular thing

Question 14

Indefinite Article

Accepted Answer

A/AN: indicates that a noun refers to a general idea rather than a particular thing

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