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The Magic Lens Def.
A set of flashcards with grammatical phrases.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grammar | a way of thinking about language |
| The four levels of traditional grammar | parts of speech, parts of sentence, phrases, clauses |
| Parts of Speech | the eight kinds of words in English |
| Noun | the name of a person, place or thing |
| Pronoun | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| Subject pronouns | pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements: I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they |
| Object pronouns | pronouns used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions: me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them |
| Adjective | a word that modifies a noun or pronoun |
| Article | the three adjectives, a, an, and the |
| Definite Article | the adjective: the |
| Indefinite Articles | the adjectives: a, an |
| Three degrees of adjectives | positive, comparative, superlative |
| Verb | a word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement |
| Conjunction | a word that joins two words or two groups of words |
| Coordinating Conjunctions | and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet |
| Subordinating Conjunctions | if, as, since, when, because |
| The correlative conjunctions | either or, neither nor, not only but also |
| Preposition | shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence |
| Interjection | shows emotion but has no grammatical function |