The Parts of Speech English 1

There Are 8 Parts of Speech 1. Nouns 2. Pronouns 3. Adjectives 4. Verbs 5. Adverbs 6. Prepositions 7. Conjunctions 8. Interjections

Nouns Definition: Person, Place, Thing, or Idea Ex. boy, mall, toothpick, peace, strength Recognition Tools: -”the” in front of common nouns except ideas -you can take a picture of them

Nouns Common Nouns: name any one person, place, thing, or idea and is generally not capitalized. Ex. woman, school, flag, happiness Proper Nouns: name a specific person, place, thing, or idea and generally is capitalized. Ex. Sally, Granite City High School, St. Louis Arch, September

Nouns Compound Nouns: made up of two or more words used together as a single noun. (They may be written as one word, separate words, or as hyphenated words.) Ex. firefighter, fire drill, brother-in-law Collective Nouns: words that name a group of a people, animals, or things. Ex. audience, flock, assortment

Pronouns Definition: Stands in place of a noun. Recognition Tools: -related to nouns -the word they refer to is the antecedent -memorize them!

Personal Pronoun Chart Pronouns Personal Pronoun Chart Singular Plural 1st person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours 2nd person you, your, yours 3rd person he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its they, them, theirs

Reflexive Pronoun Chart Pronouns Reflexive Pronoun Chart Singular- self Plural- selves 1st person myself ourselves 2nd person yourself yourselves 3rd person himself, herself, itself themselves

Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns: used to point out a specific noun when by themselves -this, that, these, those -Example: The tacos I made taste better than those.

Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns: introduce a question -who, whom, whose, which, what Ex. Which of the songs is your favorite? Relative Pronouns: introduce subordinate clauses (not a complete thought) -that, which, who, whom, whose Ex. The ship that you saw is sailing to Greece.

Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns: refers to more than one noun all each most one another either much other any everyone neither several anybody everything nobody some anyone few none somebody anything many no one something both more nothing such

Adjectives Definition: modifies nouns or pronouns Recognition Tools: Ex. happy, bright, yellow Recognition Tools: -Adj. answers: What kind? Which one? How many? How Much

Adjectives Articles -a, an, and the are ALWAYS adjectives

Adjectives Nouns as adjectives -Many words that can stand alone as nouns can also be used as adjectives modifying nouns or pronouns. Ex. cheese sandwich, snow sculpture weather report

Verbs Definition: what you do or a state of being Recognition Tools: Ex. run, think, been (forms of be) Recognition Tools: -action of the subject or other noun

Verbs Helping Verbs- “helps” the main verb express an action or a state of being Helping Verb Chart Forms of be am, are, is been, being, be was, were Forms of have has have had Forms of do do does did Modals can, could, may might, must, shall should, will, would

Verbs Action Verbs: physical or mental activity Ex. build, think Linking Verbs: connect subject to the complement Ex. is, are, was Other Linking Verbs: appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn

Adverbs Definition: modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs Ex. extremely, completely, slightly Recognition Tools: -Adverbs answer: How? When? Where? To what extent? How often? How much? How long? -by ending “-ly”

Prepositions Definition: show relation between a noun and the object Ex. of, in, under Recognition Tools: -prepositional phrases preps the object

Prepositions Common Prepositions about before concerning like since up above behind down near through upon across below during of throughout with after beneath except off to within against beside for one toward without Among between from out under along beyond in outside underneath around but (except) inside over until at by into past unto

Prepositions Don’t forget that prepositions can be compound as well. Ex. according to, because of, next to

Conjunctions Definition: joins words, phrases, or clauses, and they indicate the relation between the elements joined. Ex. but, yet, so Recognition Tools: -connects @ junction -MEMORIZE

Conjunctions Coordinating Conjunctions Correlative Conjunctions FANBOYS -for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Correlative Conjunctions -They come in pairs -both…and -neither…nor -either…or

Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions- -Introduces a subordinating clause (a phrase that cannot stand alone as a sentence.) -AAAWWUBBIS (as, after, although, while, when, until, because, before, if, since)

Subordinating Conjunctions after because since when although before so that whenever as even though than where as if if though wherever as long as in order that unless whether as soon as once until while

Interjections Definition: express emotion and have no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence Ex. ah, oops, hey, yippee Recognition Tools: -sometimes have exclamation or a comma following them