2. © Capital Community College English Grammar Parts of Speech CCHS Titans

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

4. b A b A Person b An b An Idea b A b A Thing Place Noun: A word or word group that names

5. Two Major Kinds of Nouns

6. Personal Pronouns 1 st person: I, me, mine, we, us, our, 2 nd person: you, your, yours 3 rd person: he, him, is, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs Pronoun: a word that is used in place of a noun or other pronoun Other Pronouns This, that, those, who, which, all, one, any, both, such, some, most, no one, nothing, few

7. Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Answers these questions:

8. Example Adjectives b What kind? gray, Mexican, stupid, lowest b Which one?either, next, those, that, last b How many?all, five, one, some, fewer, more

9. A word that expresses action or a state of being. Otherwise helps to make a statement Every sentence MUST have a verb…otherwise, it is not a sentence!

10. Kinds of Verbs b Action verbs express mental or physical action. b Linking verbs make a statement by connecting the subject with a word that describes or explains it. He rode the horse to victory. He has been sick.

11. Example Verbs b Helping Verbs:can, could, must, will, would, did, had, should b Action Verbs:write, go, run, sit, receive, remember, think, know b Linking Verbs:be, is, am, have been, can (State of being)be, could be, being

12. Modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Answers these questions Where? When? How? To what extent?

13. A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word. The word or word group that the preposition introduces is its object. They received a postcard from Bobby telling about his trip to Canada.

14. The preposition never stands alone ! A good way to remember prepositions is that they are anything you can do to a box. Aboardbelowfromthrough Beyonddownbeforebeside Withinpastatamong Over outsideinto near

15. The conjunction A conjunction is a word that joins words or groups of words. for and but or nor yet so F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.

16. The interjection is an exclamatory word that expresses emotion Goodness! What a cute baby! Wow! Look at that sunset!