English 101

The English language, deconstructed.

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  • term

    noun

    definition

    a person, place or thing.

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    verb

    definition

    a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.

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    adjective

    definition

    a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

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    pronoun

    definition

    a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this )

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    subject

    definition

    the subject of a sentence is the person, place, or thing that is performing the action of the sentence.

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    predicate

    definition

    the predicate expresses action or being within the sentence. the simple predicate contains the verb and can also contain modifying words, phrases, or clauses.