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Parts of Speech:
The words that we use can be divided into these classes:

• noun - A noun is a type of word that represents a person, thing, or place, like mother, apple, or valley. A proper noun represents a particular person, place or thing (proper nouns are capitalized), like Danny, Seattle , or Eiffel Tower.
• verb - A verb is a type of word that describes an action or a state of being, like wiggle, walk, run, jump, be, do, have, or think.
• pronoun - A pronoun is a substitute for a noun. Some pronouns are: I, me, she, hers, he, him, it, you, they, them, etc.
• adjective - An adjective is a word that describes something (a noun). Some adjectives are: big, cold, blue, and silly. One special type of adjective is an article, a word that introduces a noun and also limits or clarifies it; in English, the indefinite articles are a and an, the definite article is the.
• adverb - An adverb is a word that tells "how," "when," "where," or "how much". Some adverbs are: easily, warmly, quickly, mainly, freely, often, and unfortunately.
• preposition - A preposition is a word that shows the spatial (space), temporal (time), or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence. The words above, near, at, by, after, with and from are prepositions.
• conjunction - A conjunction is a word that joins other words, phrases, clauses or sentences. Some conjunctions are: and, as, because, but, or, since, so, until, and while.
• interjection - An interjection is a word that expresses emotion. An interjection often starts a sentence but it can be contained within a sentence or can stand alone. Some interjections are oh, wow, ugh, hurray, eh, and ah.

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I'll (I will) Contractions A contraction is a shortened form of one or two words (usually verbs). Some contractions are: I'm (I am), can't (cannot), how's (how is), and Ma'am (Madam).	homophones Homophones are words that sound like one another but have different meanings, like flower and flour.	Opposites Opposites (antonyms) are things that are very, very different from each other. Some examples of opposites are: left and right, big and small, up and down, tall and short.	MOM 2002 Palindromes A palindrome is a word, phrase or number that reads the same forward and backward. Some palindromes are: the name Bob, the number 101, and the phrase, "Madam, I'm Adam."
Prefix - Root Word - Suffix Prefixes and Suffixes A prefix is a group of letters placed before the root of a word. A suffix is a group of letters placed after the root of a word. For example, in the word "nonconformist", "non" is a prefix, and "ist" is a suffix.	. , ? ! ; Punctuation Marks Punctuation marks are symbols that are used in sentences and phrases to make the meaning clearer. Some punctuation marks are the period (.), comma (,), question mark (?), exclamation point (!), colon (:) and semicolon(;). This is a page of punctuation marks and other common symbols from the Little Explorers Picture Dictionary in English.	Match Punctuation Symbol Words and Pictures Match 10 punctuation symbol words to their pictures. The words are: comma, period, exclamation point, quotation mark, question mark, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, parentheses, hyphen. Or go to the answers.	rhymes Words that rhyme have endings that sound the same, like cat and hat, or kite and light.
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