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Eight Parts of Speech Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions Verbs Interjections

 A  A person place thing  An  An idea

A noun can be:  Common:  Common: shop, school  Singular/Plural:  Singular/Plural: boy/ boys  Proper: Bob,  Proper: Bob, Mr Smith  Collective:  Collective: crowd, swarm, swarm, flock  Compound:  Compound: matchbox  Uncountable: water,  Uncountable: water, flour

A word that carries the idea of action or of being in a sentence Action Linking “be” verbs & taste feel sound look appear become seem grow remain stay Subject predicate

EVERY SENTENCE MUST HAVE A V E R B

KINDS OF VERBS AAAAction verbs express physical or mental action AAAA linking verb connects a subject and its complement

PRONOUNS Generally pronouns stand for (pro+noun)or refer to a noun, an individual,or individuals, or to a thing or things

KINDS OF PRONOUNS  Personal  Demonstrative  Possessive  Object  Relative  Interrogative  Reflexive IIII,you,she…. TTTThis/That These/those MMMMine,yours MMMMe,you, him WWWWho, what,which WWWWho,what,which MMMMyself, yourself

ADJECTIVES Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or a thing in the sentence

KINDS OF ADJECTIVES  Demonstrative  Distributive  Interrogative  Possessive  Qualitative  Quantitative  Comparative  This,that  Each,every  Which,what  My,your  Fat,thin  Some,a few  Bigger, the biggest

QUALITATIVE ADJECTIVES  QUANTITY  QUALITY  SIZE  AGE  SHAPE  COLOUR  ORIGINE  MATERIAL

THE ROYAL ORDER OF ADJECTIVES  POSSESSION  QUANTITY  QUALITY  SIZE  AGE  SHAPE  COLOUR  ORIGIN  MATERIAL

ADVERBS ADVERBS ARE WORDS THAT MODIFIES A VERB AN ADJECTIVE ANOTHER ADVERB

KINDS OF ADVERBS  MANNER  PLACE  FREQUENCY  TIME  CERTAINTY  DEGREE

PREPOSITIONS LOCATORS IN SPACE AND TIME

Some Common Prepositions aboard about above across after against along among around at before behind below beneath beside between beyond by down during except for from in into like of off on over past since through throughout to toward under underneath until up upon with within without

CONJUNCTIONS A CONJUCTION IS A WORD THAT JOINS WORDS BUT OR AND

THE INTERJECTION AN EXCLAMATORY WORD THAT EXPRESSES EMOTION OH MY GOD! WOW IT’S FANTASTIC!

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