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  • ADJECTIVE - ​a word that describes a person or thing, for example big, blue and clever in a big house, blue sky and a clever idea
  • Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection, Determiner
  • Figure of Speech - A literary device that uses words in a way that is not their literal meaning.
    Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Personification, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia
  • NOUN - a word that refers to a person (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plantjoy or tennis)
  • AGENT NOUN - a noun that refers to a person or thing that does an action, for example ‘worker’ or ‘elevator’
  • COLLECTIVE NOUN - a singular noun, such as committee or team, that refers to a group of people, animals or things and, in British English, can be used with either a singular or a plural verb. In American English it must be used with a singular verb.
  • COMMON NOUN - a word such as tablecat or sea, that refers to an object or a thing but is not the name of a particular person, place or thing (general term type shi)
  • COUNT NOUN - a countable noun
  • MASS NOUN - an uncountable noun (= a noun that cannot be made plural or used with a or an, for example water, bread and information)
  • UNCOUNT NOUN - uncountable noun, cannot be used alone with numbers, cannot be made plural, etc.
  • NOUN PHRASE - a word or group of words in a sentence that behaves in the same way as a noun, that is as a subject, an object, a complement, or as the object of a preposition
  • VERB - a word or group of words that expresses an action (such as eat), an event (such as happen) or a state (such as exist)
  • INTRANSITIVE VERB - a verb which does not take a direct object (doesn't have something done to it). For example, "I run"
  • LINKING VERB - a verb such as be or become that connects a subject with the adjective or noun (called the complement) that describes it\
  • PHRASAL VERB - a verb combined with an adverb or a preposition, or sometimes both, to give a new meaning, for example go in forwin over and see to