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Essential Questions: What are parts of speech? How can learning parts of speech help me be a better reader and writer?

Standard: Acquire and accurately use grade- appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Identify the vocab. word The capacity to endure hardship or pain. Identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives Failure to do what the law or duty requires Created by José J. Gonzalez, Jr. Spring 2002 STCC 4

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6 In the English language... there are nine parts of speech: 1.Nouns 2.Verbs 3.Pronouns 4.Adjectives 5.Adverbs 6.Articles 7.Conjunctions 8.Prepositions 9.Interjections Every word in a sentence has a job to do!

Created by José J. Gonzalez, Jr. Spring 2002 STCC 7 1. Noun: person, place, thing Person: Mr. Garcia likes to eat spinach. Place: Stockton is an old town. Thing: A cook requires pots. Honesty is very important.

8 2. Verb: shows action or being Action: He ran through the forest. Being: He was sad this morning.

9 3. Pronoun: takes place of a noun Max was studying for the mid-term exam when he realized it was three o’clock in the morning.

10 4. Adjective: describes a noun The beautiful woman wanted a couple of pairs of shoes. The rainy day made us even sadder.

11 5. Article: There are three articles: a, an, & the (Articles are technically adjectives.) The bicycle was not only red but shiny. A yellow moon always appears in October. An excellent student, Armando passed all his exams.

12 6. Adverb: describes a verb The little girl walked happily through the park. The orphan hungrily ate the hot stew.

13 7. Conjunctions: joining words Katy and Marisol love to cook. You will go to school, or you will fail. I’m happy because I just got my check. It has been cloudy since the morning.

14 8. Prepositions: show position or direction The cat was on the table. The dog was under the table. These are some common prepositions: forontoup atunderabovetoward withbetweeninbehind fromuponintooff

15 9. Interjections: expressive words Wow! You knocked that ball out of the park. Oh, you really need to take care of yourself. Huh? What did you say? Ah, now I understand the problem.

The End 16 Any questions?

17 Identify the part of speech for each word in the following sentence: The beautiful queen was walking slowly on the cool lawn, and she was reading a long book about knights and kings.

18 The beautiful queen was walking article adjective noun verb slowly on the cool lawn, and she adverb preposition article adjective noun conjunction pronoun was reading a long book about verb article adjective noun preposition knights and kings. noun conjunction noun