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adjective,
4. adverb, 5. pronoun, 6. preposition,
7. conjunction, and 8. interjection
1.
Here the compound verb "will plant" describes an action that will take
place in the future.
My first teacher was Miss Crawford, but I remember the janitor Mr. Weatherbee
more vividly.
In this sentence, the verb "was" (the simple past tense of "is") identifies a
particular person and the verb "remembered" describes a mental action.
Karl Creelman bicycled around the world in 1899, but his diaries and his bicycle
were destroyed.
subject
object
Possessiv Possessiv
e pronoun e
adjective
Reflexive
pronoun
me
mine
my
Myself
he
him
his
his
Himself
she
her
hers
her
Herself
you
you
yours
your
Yourself
we
us
ours
our
Ourselves
they
them
theirs
their
Themselve
s
it
it
its
its
itself
You can use a conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses, as in the following
example:
I ate the pizza and the pasta.
Call the movers when you are ready.
Co-ordinating Conjunctions
You use a co-ordinating conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," or "yet")
to join individual words, phrases, and independent clauses. Note that you can also
use the conjunctions "but" and "for" as prepositions.
In the following sentences, each of the highlighted words is a co-ordinating
conjunction:
Lilacs and violets are usually purple.
Subordinating Conjunctions
A subordinating conjunction introduces a dependent clause and indicates the
nature of the relationship among the independent clause(s) and the dependent
clause(s).
The most common subordinating conjunctions are "after," "although," "as,"
"because," "before," "how," "if," "once," "since," "than," "that," "though," "till,"
"until," "when," "where," "whether," and "while."
Each of the highlighted words in the following sentences is a subordinating
conjunction:
After she had learned to drive, Alice felt more independent.
Objects
A verb may be followed by an object that completes the
verb's meaning. Two kinds of objects follow verbs: direct
objects and indirect objects. To determine if a verb has a
direct object, isolate the verb and make it into a question
by placing "whom?" or "what?" after it. The answer, if there
is one, is the direct object:
Direct Object
The advertising executive drove a flashy red Porsche.
Direct Object
Her secret admirer gave her a bouquet of flowers.
The second sentence above also contains an indirect
object. An indirect object (which, like a direct object, is
always a noun or pronoun) is, in a sense, the recipient of
the direct object. To determine if a verb has an indirect
object, isolate the verb and ask to whom?, to what?, for
whom?, or for what? after it. The answer is the indirect
object.