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English Grammar

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The Parts of Speech. A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun.

The Parts of Speech

You use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you" to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive. Grammarians classify pronouns into several types, including the personal pronoun, the demonstrative pronoun, the interrogative pronoun, the indefinite pronoun, the relative pronoun, the reflexive pronoun, and the intensive pronoun. Personal Pronouns.

Subject Verb agreement

Conjunctions. A conjunction is a joiner, a word that connects (conjoins) parts of a sentence.

Conjunctions

There seem to be three basic types of conjunctions. They are: coordinating conjunctions used to connect two independent clauses, subordinating conjunctions used to establish the relationship between the dependent clause and the rest of the sentence, and correlative conjunctions which always travel in pairs, joining various sentence elements that should be treated as grammatically equal. Need a list of the various conjunction types? The developmental order of acquisition for the main types of conjunctions is: coordinating - subordinating - correlative .

Paired Conjuctions