You will be taking notes P.O.S. (Parts of Speech) You will be taking notes

VERB IS A WORD THAT SHOWS ACTION OR LINKS A SUBJECT TO ANOTHER WORD. The weather is often calm before a storm. Tornadoes cause tremendous damage. Earthquakes are fairly common. They take my breath away.

PREPOSITIONS Are words that show position, direction, location or how two words or ideas are related to each other. Show the relationship between an object or some other word in a sentence. My mother looked in the clothes hamper. She went to my room. She found my shirt behind the bed against the wall along with my progress report. During the holiday break I had to clean my house. I was in trouble and had to stay inside all week. Except Thursday when I went to my grandma’s house.

ADJECTIVE IS A WORD USED TO DESCRIBE A NOUN OR PRONOUN. They usually come before the word they describe. ARTICLES = A, AN, and THE. PROPER = always get capitalized. (A Chicago museum…) COMMON = it is not capitalized COMPOUND = made up of two or more words Examples: North American Allosaurus was an egg-laying dinosaur. DEMONSTRATIVE = point out a particular noun Examples: this, these, that, those This butterfly is small, but that butterfly is huge.

NOUNS A person, place, thing, or concept/idea. Proper nouns get capitalized. Common nouns are not capitalized. Compound nouns are two nouns that have grown together or are joined with a hyphen. Collective nouns are a singular word that constrain a lot inside them. Examples: family, school, and space.

CONJUNCTIONS connect other words, groups of words or sentences.

PRONOUNS Short words that replace nouns. I, me, my, mine (1st person point of view) He, she, his, hers, them, their (3rd person) 3rd person also includes words like: It, ours, they, we. The antecedent is the noun that is replaced by the pronoun. Example: Thurber was sick and in bed. He was going to have to miss school.

He snores loudly. The snores are really explosive. ADVERB IS A WORD USED TO MODIFY A VERB, AN ADJECTIVE, OR ANOTHER ADVERB. They usually end with “ly” but not always. Examples: He snores loudly. The snores are really explosive. There are four types: time, place, manner, degree Time = tomorrow, often, never, always Place = here, there, backward, outside Manner = unkindly, gently, well, boldly Degree = generally, very, usually, entirely