COMD 2050 Chapter : Chapter 7 Review
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Nouns refer to people, objects, creatures, places, qualities, phenomena and abstract ideas as if they were all things : boy, backpack, dog, school, roughness, earthquake, love. Used with nouns to form noun phrases classifying those things or identifying them as already known: a, an the. Words that are usually used with nouns to provide more information about the things" referred to by the nouns: happy, large, strange. Used to refer to various kinds of actions and states involving people and things in events is, has, talk, go, run. Words used to provide information about actions or events or to modify adjectives: really, slowly, very, yesterday. Used with nouns in phrases providing information about time, place, and other connections involving actions and things: at, in, on, near, with, without. Used in place of noun phrases, typically referring to people and things already known: she, herself, they, it, you. Used to make connections and indicate relationships between events: and, because, when, but.