1. From The Magic Lens by Michael Clay Thompson
GRAMMAR
From
The Magic Lens by Michael Clay Thompson

2. The 8 Parts of Speech

3. Noun Verb Pronoun Adjective Adverb Conjunction Preposition
Interjection

4. Noun

5. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
place— Rolling Meadows, stadium, beach
thing—ball, water, sand
idea—happiness, love, freedom

6. Verb

7. Action & Linking Verbs
Action verbs—indicates something that can be done or performed
(“what you do”)
run, jump, skip, scream, swim
State of being (Linking Verbs) links the subject to another word
He is cute. He is tall. He is in the room.
He=cute; he=tall; he=in the room

8. More linking verbs… To be Am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being
Seems
Feels
Appears

9. linking verb or action verb?
Bob ran.
Action! He is moving his feet!
Bob seems fast.
Linking! Bob=fast. Connects the adjective to the noun it describes

10. linking verb or action verb?
Betty is pretty.
Linking! Betty=pretty. Links adjective pretty to Betty.
Betty answered the phone.
Action! She physically picked up her phone.

11. Helping Verbs
Help the main verb in a sentence by extending the meaning of the verb
Forms of Be
Forms of Do
Forms of Have am Is do
have
are
was
does
has
were
did
had
be, being, been

12. More Helping Verbs
can
would
could
shall
may
should
might
will

13. Describes a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
Describes a noun or pronoun.
Which one? this, that
What kind? red, large, sick
How many? six, four hundred
How much? None, little

14. Articles are Adjectivesan
the

15. Adjectives in Action
She saw a cute boy at the football game.
He had dark hair and blue eyes.

16. Adverb
Describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

17. Adverbs Where? Here, there, outside When? Now, then, later, yesterday
How? Quickly, slowly, stupidly
How often? Never, twice, sometimes
How long? Hardly, greatly, very
How much? More, less
Adverbs

18. Adverbs in Action He called yesterday.
(yesterday tells when he called—modifies verb)

19. She sang quite loudly.
(loudly tells how she sang—modifies verb)
(quite tells how loudly—modifies adverb)

20. The very cute boy e-mailed her.
(very tells how cute—
modifies adjective)

21. Pronoun Take the place of nouns. It, its He, him, his She, her, hers
They, them, theirs

22. This, that, these, those
Myself, yourself, himself, ourselves
Who, whose, whom, which, that

23. Link together words, phrases, and clauses.
Conjunctions
Link together words, phrases, and clauses.

24. Coordinating Conjunctions:
(co=together) (con=together) (junct=join)
and
but
or, nor, for so
yet

25. Subordinating Conjunctions:
(sub=under) (con=together) (junct=join) if as
since
when
because

26. Preposition
Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence.
Don’t end a sentence with a preposition.

27. Prepositions Show time, space, or direction
Time : before, during after
Space: in, on, beside, around, among
Direction: to, from, toward

28. Prepositions never stand alone. They are before their object (a noun).
He ran over the hill.
Over=preposition hill=its object ( a noun)
Over the hill=prepositional phrase

29. Prepositions: About Above Across After Along Amid Among Around at
Before
Behind
Below
Beneath
Besides
Between
Beyond
But by
Concerning
Down
During
Except
For
from

30. In
Into Of
Off On
Over
Past
since
Through
Throughout To
Toward
Under
Underneath
Until
Unto Up
upon
With
Within
Without
Apart from
As for
As well as
Aside from
Because of
By means of
Contrary to
In back of
In case of
In front of
In place of
In spite of
Inside of

31. Instead of
Out of
Together with
Up at
Up to
With regard to

32. Interjection
A little word that expresses a feeling, calls attention, says yes or no, or indicates a pause.
Wow! Gee! Yep! Hey! Well, Ah!