1. An Introduction To…
The PARTS of SPEECH

2. In your biology classes, you learned that scientists have taken all the critters in the animal kingdom and organized them in types of categories, from broad to very specific.

3. Well, with our language, the same thing has been done
Well, with our language, the same thing has been done. Our words have been classified and placed in certain categories, based upon what they do. This arrangement of words is known as The Parts of Speech.

5. Now, the difference between categorizing animals and words, is that with the parts of speech, our words are divided by what they DO and not what they look like.

6. We will be taking our time with these, spacing out our study of them over the next two quarters.
You should make a separate section in your 3-tab folder to organize these notes and worksheets.
The study of the parts of speech is kind of like algebra class in one regard…
Yes, we will be diagraming sentences. 

7. READY to GET STARTED?

8. NOUNS A NOUN is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea
Nouns are divided into: COMMON, PROPER, CONCRETE, ABSTRACT, COMPOUND, and COLLECTIVE
(Common and Proper are opposites)
(Concrete and Abstract are opposites)
(Compound and Collective have nothing to do with each other)