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as
Preposition
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A word that is used to compare two things that are equal.
As you know, we need more workers.
I baked the cake as my mother used to.
The room looks just as it did when I was a child.
The speech, as he remembered it, was very powerful.
Interesting as it seems, I don't think I'll get it.
He was as big as a mountain.
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A word that is used to show that two things happened at the same time.
Just as I went out, it started to rain.
We sleep as the world turns in darkness.
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A word that is used to show why something happens.
As I couldn't understand French, I didn't watch the film.
as
Adverb
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A word that is used to compare two things that are equal. (Used before adjectives)
You are younger than I am, but nearly as tall.
This is not as good as it was last time.
dumb
Adjective
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Not able to speak. If someone is dumb they can not say anything.
They went to a school for the deaf and dumb.
Dogs are just dumb animals.
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Another word for stupid. If you are dumb you are not intelligent.
That is a really dumb idea.
How could I be so dumb? I know better than that!
I'm not dumb enough to believe that.
It is not nice to call someone dumb.
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.
sack
Noun
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A sack is a bag used to hold things.
She opened the brown paper sack and put the shopping in it.
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To sack is to plunder and pillage a captured town or city.
The sack of Rome.
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The sack is a slang word for bed.
I'm tired. I think I'll hit the sack and get some sleep.
sack
Verb
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To plunder or pillage a captured town or city.
The barbarians sacked Rome.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
Hammers
properNoun
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(usually "the Hammers") West Ham United Football Club