text: i know this is a lot but could you give me some help for the following?  please help it's for my final exam. nouns verbs adjectives adverbs pronouns prepositions conjunctions interjections ommas quotation marks italics and underlining capitilization abbreviations active vs. passive voice plural and possesive nouns spelling rules appositives word usage  it's reveiw so i know it all.  thanks sooo much. nouns=a person, place or thing verbs= a doing word eg. he threw the ball. threw is the verb adjectives= a word describing a noun eg. it was a round ball. round is the adjective. adverbs= a word describing a verb eg. she lovingly touched his face. lovingly is the adverb. pronouns=replace a noun or another pronoun. you use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you" to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive.eg. instead of saying shannon threw the ball. you say i threw the ball. preposition=links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. the word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.eg.the book is on the table. conjunction=you can use a conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses eg.lilacs and violets are usually purple. interjection=an interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion. it is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.eg. ouch, that hurt. comma's=a comma separates the structural elements of sentences into manageable segments.the game was over, but the crowd refused to leave. quotation marks= you put these at the beginning and end of someone talking eg. "my sister is a baby," said the girl.or at the beginning and end of a quote.  italics and underlining= are used to point something out that is important they are usually used in assignments ect. capitalization= are used at the beginning of a sentence or at the beginning of a name. abbreviations= are never to be used in assignments abbreviations are when two word are shortend into one eg. do not =dont or when one word is shortened eg. example= eg. spelling rules= there are heaps of these, ever heard of i before e except before c look them up on the net. plural and possesive nouns=an apostrophe + -s ('s) marks the possessive form of any noun that hasn't already added a final -s to make a plural. appositives=an appositive is a word or group of words that identifies or renames the noun or pronoun that it follows. it is set off by commas unless closely tied to the word that it identifies or renames. ("closely tied" means that it is needed to identify the word.) examples: my son carl is a medical technician. (no commas) badger, our dog with a missing leg, has a love for cats. (commas needed). word usage=word usage is how a word, phrase, or concept is used in a language