1. Parts of Speech
English I
Dr. Maier

2. The Noun What is it? Difference between common and proper nouns
Difference between concrete and abstract nouns:
Compound Nouns
Collective Nouns

3. Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns
Common nouns: scientist, woman, city, building, baseball player
Proper Nouns: Einstein, Jennifer Lopez, Houston, Moran Hall, Nolan Ryan

4. Concrete Nouns vs. Abstract Nouns
Concrete Nouns: Can be perceived through the senses
Abstract Nouns: Ideas, Qualities, Characteristics

5. Compound Nouns
Characteristic of all Germanic languages like English, German, Dutch, Swedish, etc.
Examples: German:
Geschirrspülmaschine
Donauschifffarhrtgesellschaftskapitansmütze
English: bookcase, firefighter, newspaper
prime minister, sister-in-law

6. Collective Nouns Names a group:
People: audience, team, crew, committee
Animals: flock, gaggle, herd, pack, crash (of rhinoceres), murder (of crows)

7. Pronouns
What are they and how do they function?

8. Personal Pronouns
First Person Pronouns:
Second Person:
Third Person:

9. Subject Pronouns
What is a subject?
What does it do?
Subject pronouns:

10. Object Pronouns What is a direct object? What is an indirect object?
What are the object pronouns?

11. Which sentence is correct?1
a) Me and Kevin went to the game.
b) Kevin and I went to the game. 2
a) She sent Kevin and I an .
b) She sent Kevin and me an .

12. Antecedents
The noun that a pronoun refers back to in the sentence. All pronouns ultimately have an antecedent. Why?
Pronouns cannot be completely independent.

13. Reflexive Pronouns
Refer back to the subject and describe a reflexive action (i.e. I see myself in the mirror.)
First person:
Second person:
Third person:

14. Demonstrative Pronouns
Used to point things out or demonstrate (from Latin “demonstrare=to show”)
Examples:
this, that, these, those

15. Interrogative Pronouns
Introduce Questions
Who, Whom, Which, What, Whose

16. Difference between Who and Whom
Traditional/technical distinction
Actual usage
Conflict between the rulebook and actual practice, between theory and practice

17. Relative Pronouns Introduce a subordinate clause (dependent clause)
The game that the Crusaders won.
St. Thomas is the school that lost the game.
We saw the coach whose players lost.
Griffins, which are mythological beasts, are often featured on coats of arms.

18. Adjectives
Modify NOUNS (not verbs)!
Examples?

19. Nouns can be used as adjectives
Noun: Crusader
Adjective: crusader spirit
Noun: Jesuit
Adjective: Jesuit education

20. Verbs Transitive vs. Intransitive Verbs Transitive:
“I eat the sandwich.”
Intransitive:
“I swim daily.”
Action verbs

21. Linking Verbs
Identify or describe subject (rather than some independent action)
Most common linking verb?
Common linking verbs: appear, become, look, seem, sound, stay, taste

22. Helping/Auxiliary Verbs
“Help” the main verb express the action or state of being
Common helping verbs:
can, could, do, does, has, have might, must, should, would, shall...

23. Adverbs Adjectives vs. Adverbs: Adjectives modify ___________
Adverbs modify ________, __________, and other_________.
Most often (but not always) adverbs end in ___.

24. Good vs. Well
Federer’s mistake: “I served excellent.”

25. Adverbs as Intensifiers
Really, especially, so, too, quite, rather, somewhat, very.
Ex: Ronaldo is really_
____________

26. Adverbs of Time and Frequency
often, sometimes, always, never, tomorrow, today, now, later,

27. The Preposition
Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.
Common prepositions:
about, above, after, against, along, before, behind, beneath, between, by, during, except, for, from, in, of, onto, over, since, through, throughout, to, toward, upon, with, within...

28. Compound Prepositions
According to
Aside from
By means of
In addition to
In spite of
On account of
Prior to

29. The Conjunction A word that joins words or word groups
Coordinating Conjunctions
and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so
Correlative Conjunctions
both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also

30. The Interjection Used to express emotion:
Examples: ah, aha, boy-oh-boy,
hey, oops, ouch, well, yikes,
yippee!