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a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
boy
Noun
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A boy is a male child or teenager; someone who is not a man yet.
He had a pretty wife and two little ones: a boy and a girl.
My oldest son was a Boy Scout in England.
The boys basketball team won five games in a row.
Two teenage boys died in the crash.
A 12-year-old boy stands at the window and watches two men outside.
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An immature man.
"I am a grown man" "you are not a man, you are a little boy, you don't act like a man".
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A male animal.
I told my mom I wanted a boy puppy, not a girl one.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
his
Pronoun
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If you say something is his thing, you mean it belongs to a particular man or boy.
It is his book, not mine.
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His is used, instead of the name of an object, to refer to something belonging to a man or boy.
It isn't my book, it is his.
dog
Noun
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A dog is a domestic mammal, related to wolves and foxes, that is often kept as a pet.
My pet dog is called "Rover".
dog
Verb
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If you dog someone, you follow them while being annoying.
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If you dog something or someone, you follow them to try to catch them.