PARTS

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SPEECH
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A (1) noun names a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. Proper and
common nouns. Common nouns can be divided into countable, uncountable,
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A (2) pronoun substitutes for a noun. Examples: you, she, ourselves, them,
who, everyone, somebody, none.
A (3) verb works with nouns or pronouns to convey an action, including a
thought, or a state of being. A verb phrase consists of the main verb and a
helping verb. There are two categories of main verbs: action and linking or
state of being verbs.
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An (4) adjective modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives answer the
following questions: Which? What kind of? How many? Whose? Adjectives can be
words, phrases, or clauses. Pronouns such as my and each can also function as
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adjectives: my book, each car. An article (a, an, the) is not a separate part of speech
but a subclass of adjectives.
An (5) adverb modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An
adverb answers one of the following questions: When? Where? Why? How? Under
what conditions? To what extent? Adverbs, like adjectives, can be words, phrases, or
clauses.
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A (6) preposition joins elements in a sentence. Prepositions are usually short words
or phrases that attach a noun or pronoun to another part of the sentence, showing a
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relationship between the two, usually in time or space, Prepositions are words or
phrases, not clauses.
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Amazon Isn’t Interested in Making the World a Better Place
Published February 15
The announcement on Thursday that Amazon has canceled its plan to build a headquarters in
New York City is no victory. It’s no defeat, either.
What it is, to use a Big Apple term, is meh, yet another indication that the dulcet attractions of
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tech have lost their charm for many and that the business — which has been this country’s most
innovative and promising and often its most inspirational — is just that: a business, like any
other, out for itself and itself alone, and most definitely not changing the world for the better.
That was the cry of tech from its start — especially of the internet types like the Amazon head,
Jeff Bezos. Bankers never said they were going to make the world a better place. Nor did
makers of toilet paper or potato chips. Maybe soda makers like Coca-Cola said it in their ads,
but we were all in on the joke when they told us that sugar water would bring the world
together.
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A (7) conjunction, like a preposition, joins elements. Conjunctions connect two or
more similar parts of a sentence (two nouns, two verbs, two clauses, and so on) and
often require parallel structures. Conjunctions can be words or phrases, but not
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clauses. There are three primary types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating,
and correlative.
The coordinating conjunctions are easily remembered by the acronym FANBOYS.
Some examples of subordinating conjunctions include until, if, before, because,
since, while, after.
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For these words to act as subordinating conjunctions, they must be followed by a
subject and a verb; otherwise, these words can act as other parts of speech, such as
prepositions.
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Before you came, I was preparing this lesson.
(Compare with, “We’ll be leaving before noon.”)

Some examples of correlative conjunctions are neither-nor, either-or, both-and, not

only-but also.
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An (8) interjection expresses emotion (surprise, excitement, anger, and so on). An
interjection can stand alone. Interjections can be words, phrases, or clauses.

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Examples: Wow! Oh, my goodness! Well, bust my buttons!
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