1. Parts of Speech Meeting #1 Universitas Multimedia Nusantara

2. Sentence A sentence is a string of words that carry meaning. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. Examples: A dog is chasing a cat. My father works at the hospital.

3.  The following are not sentences: When I met her Probably, it. A group of fruits eat their grass through cane midnight. Doctor will together pain rub stomach.

4. Parts of Speech  Is a traditional term to describe the different types of words that form a sentence. i.e. noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, determiner.

5.  These parts of speech usually occupy certain places in a sentence.  For example, the subject of a sentence is usually a noun or a noun phrase.  However, sometimes it is not that easy as a class of word can function as another, e.g. gerunds are verbs that function as nouns.

6. Grammatical Function Santoso is a wonderful son.  By function: Santoso  subject is  verb a wonderful son  subject complement (it explains the subject)

7.  By parts of speech (grammatical category): Santoso  proper noun is  verb (auxiliary verb) a  determiner wonderful  adjective son  noun

8.  If we know the parts of speech we can construct any sentence that is grammatically correct. Mary works at the factory. SVAdv My cousin lives next door. I went to Africa last year. The book that I read belongs to the library.

9. Basic Sentence Patterns  There are 7 basic sentence patterns: SVHillary yawned SVOHillary opened the door SVCHillary is ready SVAHillary lives in London SVOOHillary gave me a pen SVOCHillary got a shoe wet SVOAHillary put the box on the table

10. Clause or Phrase? A clause has a verb in it, whereas a phrase doesn’t.  Every week she goes shopping.  She went to the city with her friends.  The building at the corner of the street is our campus. The underlined are phrases.