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  CONJUNCTIONS Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases,  or clauses together. I like cooking and eating, but I don’t like washing dishes  afterward. Sophie is clearly exhausted, yet she insists on  dancing till dawn. Coordinating Conjunctions Coordinating conjunctions allow you to join words, phrases, and  clauses of equal grammatical rank in a sentence. The most common coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but,  or, yet, and so Example: I’d like pizza or a salad for lunch. Correlative Conjunctions Correlative conjunctions are pairs of conjunctions that work  together. Some examples are either/or, neither/nor, and not  only/but also. Example: Not only am I finished studying for English, but I’m also finished writing my  history essay.  It means I am finished with both my English essay and my history essay. Subordinating Conjunctions Subordinating conjunctions join independent and dependent clauses.  A subordinating conjunction can signal a cause-and-effect relation

  Adjectives An adjective is a word that tells us more  about a noun.  It "describes" or "modifies" a noun. Adjectives are used to identify or  quantify individual people and  unique things Adjectives are words that describe or  modify other words, making your writing  and speaking much more specific, and a  whole lot more interesting. Words like  small, blue, and sharp are descriptive, and  they are all examples of adjectives. Adjective Examples: In the following examples, the highlighted words are  adjectives: 1.They live in a big, beautiful house. 2.Since it’s a hot day, Lisa is wearing a sleeveless shirt. 3.The mountaintops are covered in sparkling. 4.On her birthday, Brenda received an antique vase  filled with fragrant. Types of Adjectives 1:  Numbers Adjectives: When they’re used in sentences, numbers are  almost always adjectives. You can tell that a  number is an adjective when it answers the  question “How many?” •The stagecoach was pulled by a team of six

  WHAT IS A CLAUSE????? •A clause is a group of words containing a subject and  verb. • An independent clause is a simple sentence. It can  stand on its own. Examples: She is hungry. I am feeling well today. •A dependent clause cannot stand on  its own.  •It needs an independent clause to  complete a sentence.  •Dependent clauses often begin with  such words as although, since, if,  when, and because. Examples: Although she is hungry , she will give him some of her food. Whatever they decide, I will agree to. Dependent Independent Although she is hungry, she will give him some of  her food. Whatever they decide, I will agree to. • What is Phrase ??? •A phrase is a group of words without a subject-verb component,  used as a single part of speech. Examples: The Policeman (this phrase acts as a noun) Poor People (this phrase acts as an adjective). With the blue shirt (this prepositional phrase acts as an adjectives. For twenty days (this prepositional phrase acts as an adverb) Noun Phrase

Subject and Predicate Basics  : Alphabets: → 26 letters. A, B, C, D …………… Z. Consonants: 21 ( Except vowels). Vowels: 5 ( a,e,i, o,u ). Focuses on sounds. Letters🠚 Words 🠚Sentences🠚  Speech  Subject and Predicate Every complete sentence contains two  parts: A:  a Subject. B:  a Predicate. The subject is what (or whom) the sentence  is about, while the predicate tells something about  the subject. “The cat is sleeping in the sun” the word The cat is the subject.  A predicate is the part of a sentence, or a  clause, that tells what the subject is doing or  what the subject is. Is sleeping in the sun is Predicate. “My father fixed the dryer”. My father is subject. Fixed the dryer is Predicate. ❖Subject contains: a noun, object or a pronoun. ❖Predicate contains: a main verb ( action )

The parts of speech explain how a word is used in a  sentence. There are eight main parts of speech (also known  as word classes): nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs,  adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. In English the main parts of speech are: ❑ noun ❑ pronoun ❑ adjective ❑ determiner ❑ verb ❑ adverb ❑ preposition ❑ conjunction ❑ interjection. 1: NOUN A noun is a naming word. It can be the name of a thing, place,  person, animal or feeling.  Examples of Noun: ❑ Naming People: It could be a name of any person,  for example: John, Fatima, Singh, Michael, Tom and so on. Naming Places: It could be a name of any place,  for example: America, China, Church, Taj Mahal, Paris and so on.  ❑ Naming Things: Naming things are like Car, Hat, Bottle, Table, Chair, Ball and so on. ❑ Naming Animals: Dog, Rabbit, Elephant, Chicken, Horse. ❑Naming Feeling/Qualities/Ideas: Joy, Fear, Beauty, Strength, Anger. Example ❑ I live in Australia. ❑ Jenny is my sister. ❑ I love to play with my