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Nouns
- adjective (plural: adjectives) a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying.
- adverb (plural: adverbs) a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses.
- clause (plural: clauses) a construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- conjunction (plural: conjunctions) a class of words that function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however.
- expression (plural: expressions) phrases or groups of words that communicate a specific meaning when employed in a specific way.
- idiom (plural: idioms) an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements (for example, kick the bucket meaning to die)
- interjection (plural: interjections) a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it and mainly expresses feelings (for example, Wow)
- language (plural: languages) a system of human communication consisting of words used by the people of a particular country or region in a structured way.
- letter (plural: letters) a symbol or character that is conventionally used in writing and printing to represent a speech sound and that is part of an alphabet.
- noun (plural: nouns) a class of words referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities.
- phrase (plural: phrases) a group of words that works together in a sentence but does not contain a subject or verb.
- predicate (plural: predicates) one of the two main parts of a sentence, containing the verb and any of its objects, modifiers, or other completions, and generally expressing an action, state, or condition.
- preposition (plural: prepositions) a word used before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location or to introduce an object.
- pronoun (plural: pronouns) a class of words that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases (for example, I, you, he, we, they)
- question (plural: questions) a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- sentence (plural: sentences) a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, or exclamation and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate.
- subject (plural: subjects) any noun, pronoun or noun phrase that does the action in the main sentence.
- verb (plural: verbs) a class of words that indicate a physical action, a mental action or a state of being.
- word (plural: words) a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.
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