THE PARTS OF SPEECH Created by Cindy Leibel 2015.
NOUNS
NOUNS A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Person: Joe my friend teachers the swimmer
NOUNS A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Place: COTR Canada Cranbrook a park
NOUNS A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Thing: your desk volcanos cars elephants
NOUNS A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Idea: love work studying exercise
GENERAL NOUNS
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS With a general noun, you are talking about many things in many places. I like cars. (Many cars in many places). People should drive less. (Many people in many places)
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS Make them plural and use NO ARTICLE. I like cars. (Many cars in many places). I like the cars. “Which cars?” “What cars are you talking about?”
COUNT AND NON-COUNT NOUNS
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS A count noun is a noun that you can count. How many cakes do you have? She gave us many books.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS A non-count noun is a noun that you can’t count. We DO NOT put an “s” at the end of non- count nouns! How much water is in this cup? You cannot say “1 water is in this cup”.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS To measure them, we always use OF. How much water is in this cup? I see 475ml OF water in this cup!
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS COUNT NOUNS MANY, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… FEW S for plural CAKES ARE NON-COUNT NOUNS MUCH, no numbers! LITTLE no plurals! BUTTER IS
PROPER AND COMMON NOUNS
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS A proper noun has a name. The first letter is BIG. A common noun has no name. PROPER COMMON IPhone smartphone Cranbrook city Cindy teacher COTR college
PRONOUNS
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS A pronoun has the meaning of another noun. I have a new problem. It is difficult to solve. I saw a man. He was wearing a big hat.
COMMON PRONOUN TYPES Subject Object Possessive Reflexive Demonstrative me mine myself this you yours yourself yourselves (pl) that he him his himself these she her hers herself those it its itself we us ours ourselves they them theirs themselves
VERBS
VERBS A verb is an action or state. Action: Run Scream Jump Swim
VERBS A verb is an action or state. State: be smell have think
ADJECTIVES
ADJECTIVES Adjectives describe a noun or pronoun. They are usually before a noun They also are AFTER some verbs (feel, be, etc.) This is a nice binder. I am sad. My blue bag is on the floor.
ARTICLES
ADJECTIVES Articles are adjectives before many nouns. We will learn more tomorrow. This is a binder. We need the chair.
ADVERBS
ADVERBS Adverbs describe: Adjectives Adverbs Verbs I am really mad right now! She runs very quickly. He studies hard.
ADVERBS Adverbs describe: When How How much Where Later, I will tell you the answer. Please write carefully. I am very upset. Put your books here.
ADVERBS I am quick. I run quickly. He is angry. He’s talking angrily. To make an adverb, you can add LY at the end of an adjective. Be careful: friendly lonely elderly are ADJECTIVES! I am quick. I run quickly. He is angry. He’s talking angrily. We are sad. We’re studying sadly.
ADVERBS Here are some examples of common adverbs that DON’T end in LY: just now here also more too as where very when again today tomorrow
OTHER PARTS OF SPEECH
CONJUNCTIONS Conjunctions connect ideas or similar parts of speech. He’s nice, but I’m not very sure about him. If you leave now, I’ll be very angry!
PREPOSITIONS Prepositions form prepositional phrases. The man (in the garden) is looking (for you). (After school), I’m going (to the mall) (with my friends).
IN SUMMARY: THE PARTS OF SPEECH 1. NOUNS 2. ADJECTIVES 3. ADVERBS 4. VERBS -count -non-count -general -proper -common -LY 5. PRONOUNS 6. ARTICLES 7. PREPOSITIONS 8. CONJUNCTIONS -subject -object -possessive -demonstrative -prepositional phrases 9. INTERJECTIONS
QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN THIS PRESENTATION What is a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb? How are count and non-count nouns different? What are general nouns? How do we talk about them? What are pronouns? What are articles? What do adverbs normally end with? What are conjunctions and prepositions?