Parts of Speech One good way to begin learning about words is to look at the eight kinds of words in English, known as the parts of speech

Parts of Speech nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections

Nouns Are naming words Help people identify what they are talking or thinking about. Grandfather, ice cream, loyalty, and Ohio are all nouns. A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.

Nouns A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. People, Places, and Things

Nouns People Places Things

Nouns People farmer pilot Bostonians Mrs. Wilson

Nouns Places Chicago theater waiting room Madison Square Garden

Living and Nonliving Things That You Can See flowers elephant ballpoint pen skyscraper poem goldfish Things

Ideas and Things That You Cannot Usually See success happiness anger revolution fairness health Things

Classifying Nouns People Places Things

Nouns that names groups of individual people or things Collective Nouns Nouns that names groups of individual people or things

Collective Nouns team class committee crowd group audience

Compound Nouns A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more words

TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNS Separate Words Hyphenated Words Combined Words

TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNS Separate Words high school chief justice Empire State Building

TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNS Hyphenated Words cure-all cha-cha mother-in-law

Recognizing Compound Nouns There is no way their high school can beat ours this year. Yesterday in homeroom, Bob and I discussed sports in our junior high school. We both agreed that our victory in volleyball was the highlight of the year.

Common and Proper Nouns A common noun names any one of a class of people, places, or things. A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing.

Common Nouns author village story

Proper Nouns Washington Irving Tarrytown Nile

Proper Nouns Write each proper noun correctly with capitals. car, convertible, oldsmobile state, district, dade county lake erie, ocean, river magazine, bible, pamphlet

Parts of Speech Pronouns nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections

Pronouns Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. They are generally used when it would not make sense to repeat a noun over and over again.

Pronouns Aunt Jenny was late because Aunt Jenny missed Aunt Jenny’s train. Aunt Jenny was late because she missed her train.

Pronouns A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or of a group of words acting as a noun. My father opened his present first. A pronoun can also take the place of a noun used in an earlier sentence. My father opened his present first. He felt he couldn’t wait any longer.

Antecedents of Pronouns A pronoun is closely related to the noun it replaces. The noun that the pronoun takes the place of has a special name. It is called the antecedent. The Latin prefix ante means “before,” and most antecedents do come before the pronouns that take their place. My father opened his present first. He felt he couldn’t wait any longer. The antecedent is father

Personal Pronouns Personal pronouns refer to The person speaking The person spoken to The person, place, or thing spoken about Depending on whom or what a personal pronoun refers to, it is called a first-person, second-person, or third-person pronoun.

Personal Pronouns She, her, hers their, theirs It, its Singular Plural First Person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours Second person you, your, yours you, your, yours Third person he, him, his, they, them, She, her, hers their, theirs It, its

Four Special Kinds of Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

Four Special Kinds of Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns Singular - this , that Plural – these, those A demonstrative pronoun can come before or after its antecedent Before: This is the book I chose. Those are my new friends. After: Of all my stamps, these are the most valuable.

Four Special Kinds of Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

Relative Pronouns Relative pronouns are connecting words There are five relative pronouns that, which, who, whom, whose A relative pronoun begins a subordinate clause and connects it to another idea in the same sentence.

Four Special Kinds of Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns An interrogative pronoun is used to begin a question. All together there are five interrogative pronouns. What, which, who, whom, whose

Four Special Kinds of Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns Indefinite pronouns refer to people, places, or things, often without specifying which ones. Singular: another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, little, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one other, somebody, someone, something

Indefinite Pronouns Plural: both, few, many, others, several Singular or Plural: all, any, more, most, none, some

Indefinite Pronouns WITHOUT ANTECEDENTS: Anyone can volunteer to serve hot dogs at the game. Many cheered when the President arrived. WITH ANTECEDENTS: All of the students volunteered to sell hot dogs at the game. The guests gathered eagerly. Many cheered when he arrived.

Four Special Kinds of Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

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