1. Daily Grammar Practice
Jake and his partner forgot to write the girls names
Identify the parts of speech for each word.
Mark the subject and verb for the sentence.
Make appropriate corrections to the sentence.

2. The Eight Parts of Speech Review

3. 1. Nouns Categories of Nouns Types of Nouns Common – bridge, river
Proper – Tim, New Orleans
Concrete – shoe, car
Abstract – truth, love, beauty
Singular – detention
Plural - detentions
Types of Nouns
Person – students, teacher, Mr. Jones, Shakespeare
Place – school, Iowa, home
Thing – yard stick, belt, referral
Idea – sadness, love, surprise

4. 2. Personal Pronouns
A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun
An antecedent is the word that a pronoun replaces
Ex. Tim forgot his book in his locker and so
was given 10 Saturday detentions.
Antecedent Pronoun

5. Personal Pronouns Singular Plural *First Person I, me (my, mine)
we, us
(our, ours)
*Second Person
you
(your, yours)
Third Person
he, him, she, her, it
(his, her, hers, its)
they, them
(their, theirs)
When you are writing papers in this class you will NOT use first or second person personal pronouns!

6. Other Kinds of Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns: reflects the subject of the sentence – there will always be at least one word between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent.
Ex. Luke Skywalker made himself a lightsaber.
Intensive Pronoun: emphasizes a noun or pronoun in the same sentence – almost always comes right after its antecedent.
Ex. Luke Skywalker himself blew up the Death Star.
Reflexive and intensive pronouns are formed by adding –self or –selves to personal pronouns.

7. Other Kinds of Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns: point out specific things: this, these, that, and those
Ex. I prefer my chair to that over there.
Indefinite Pronouns: refer to things not specifically identified – usually don’t have antecedents – another, nothing, on, both, all, any, more, etc.
Ex. Everyone loves Star Wars!

8. Other Kinds of Pronouns
Interrogative Pronoun: introduces a question – who, whom, whose, which, what
Ex. Who is Luke Skywalker?
Relative Pronoun: introduces a noun or adjective clause – who, whom, whose, which, that
Ex. Luke Skywalker, who is the coolest person ever, flies in space.

9. 3. Verbs Expresses an action, a condition, or a state of being.
Action Verb: expresses an…action!
Transitive verb: takes an object
Object: noun that receives the action
Ex. Timmy kicked the cat.
The cat is the object because it is the thing being kicked.
Intransitive verb: does not take an object.
Ex. Mr. Jones snores at night.

10. Verbs
Linking Verbs: a verb that links the subject to a word in the predicate.
Two forms of linking verbs
Forms of to be
is, am, are, was, were, been, being
Ex. Star Wars is the coolest movie ever.
Verbs that express condition
look, smell, feel, sound, taste, seem, etc.
Ex. Darth Vader looks scary.

11. Verbs Helping Verbs (or Auxiliary Verbs) and Verb Phrases
Helping verbs combine with other verbs to create verb phrases
Verb phrases express a tense
Ex.
I will be getting a lightsaber for Christmas.
I have gotten a lightsaber for Christmas.

12. 4. Adjectives An adjective modifies the meaning of a noun or pronoun.
Ex. Green lightsabers, five lightsabers, etc.
Proper adjectives: formed from proper nouns, capitalized
Shakespearean, Jamaican, etc.

13. 5. Adverbs An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Often (but not always) ends in –ly.
Ex. Mike scrambled quickly from the bee hive.
Ex. He was extremely upset.
He had knocked down the hive quite accidentally.

14. 6. Prepositions About Before Down Of To Above Behind From On Under
After
Beside In
Out Up
Along
Between
Into
Over
Upon As By
Like
Since
With At
Despite
Near
Through

15. Prepositional Phrases
A preposition shows the relationship between a noun
and another word in the sentence.
A prepositional phrase starts with the preposition and
ends with the next noun which is called the object of
the preposition.
Ex. Luke Skywalker is the coolest person in the galaxy.
object
preposition

16. 7. Conjunctions A conjunction connects words together.
Coordinating conjunction:
FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so – memorize it!
Correlative Conjunctions:
Ex. both…and, neither…nor, either…or, not only…but also.

17. 7. Conjunctions
A conjunction connects words together.
Subordinating conjunction:
A subordinating conjunction is a word that connects a subordinating clause to a main clause.

18. 7. Conjunctions

19. 8. Interjections An interjection is a word or phrase the expresses
a feeling.
A strong interjection (Stop!) is followed by an exclamation point.
A mild interjections (Oh,) is followed by a comma.
Ex. Wow! This was the most exciting slide ever!
Ex. Um, not really.

20. Write a five-sentence paragraph that uses all eight parts of speech.
Writing Practice
Write a five-sentence paragraph that uses all eight parts of speech.