1. Honors English 9 Mrs. Ivey
Parts of Speech
Honors English 9
Mrs. Ivey

2. NOUNS
Person
Place
Thing
Idea

3. NOUNS
Common nouns—any one of a group of person, places, things, or ideas
Scientist
Day
City
Proper nouns—particular person, place, or thing—should be capitalized
Marie Curie
Saturday
Mobile

4. NOUNS Collective Nouns—word that names a group
People—audience, chorus, committee, crew
Animals—brood, flock, gaggle, herd
Things---assortment, batch, bundle, cluster

5. PRONOUNS Word used to take the place of a noun or another pronoun
Antecedent—word that a pronoun stands for or refers to

6. He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs
PERSONAL PRONOUNS
First
Person
I, me, my, mine,
we, us, our, ours
Second
You, your, yours
Third
He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs

7. Himself, herself, itself, themselves
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
First
Person
Myself, ourselves
Second
Yourself, yourselves
Third
Himself, herself, itself, themselves

8. PRONOUNS Other types of pronouns:
Demonstrative—used to point out a specific person, place, thing, or idea
Interrogative—introduces a question
Relative—introduces a subordinate clause
Indefinite—refers to one or more persons, places, things, or ideas that may not be specifically named (will learn these later)

9. ADJECTIVES Modifies (describes) a noun or a pronoun Answers…
What kind?
Which one?
How many?
Adjectives formed from proper nouns…proper adjectives…capitalized

10. VERBS Expresses an action or a state of being Two types of verbs
Linking

11. VERBS Action verbs—express physical or mental action
Linking verbs—connects subject to word/word group that identifies or describes the subject

12. VERBS
Verb Phrases—at lease one main verb and one or more helping verb

13. ADVERBS Modifies (describes) verbs, adjectives, or another adverb
Answers…
Where?
When?
How?
To what extent?

14. PREPOSITIONS
Shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word
many prepositions can also be used as adverbs…ask whether the word relates a noun or pronoun to another word

15. PREPOSITIONS
Come together with a noun (object of the preposition) to form PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

16. CONJUNCTIONS Word that joins words or word groups Two types:
Coordinating—joins word or word groups that are used in the same way
Coorelative—pairs of conjunctions that join words or word groups that are used in the same way

17. Correlative Conjunctions
Both…and
Not only…but also
Either…or
Neither…nor
Whether…or

18. INTERJECTIONS Word that expresses emotion
Has not grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence
Set off from by an exclamation point or comma