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1 The Parts of Speech English 1

2 There Are 8 Parts of Speech
1. Nouns 2. Pronouns 3. Adjectives 4. Verbs 5. Adverbs 6. Prepositions 7. Conjunctions 8. Interjections

3 Nouns Definition: Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
Ex. boy, mall, toothpick, peace, strength Recognition Tools: -”the” in front of common nouns except ideas -you can take a picture of them

4 Nouns Common Nouns: name any one person, place, thing, or idea and is generally not capitalized. Ex. woman, school, flag, happiness Proper Nouns: name a specific person, place, thing, or idea and generally is capitalized. Ex. Sally, Granite City High School, St. Louis Arch, September

5 Nouns Compound Nouns: made up of two or more words used together as a single noun. (They may be written as one word, separate words, or as hyphenated words.) Ex. firefighter, fire drill, brother-in-law Collective Nouns: words that name a group of a people, animals, or things. Ex. audience, flock, assortment

6 Pronouns Definition: Stands in place of a noun. Recognition Tools:
-related to nouns -the word they refer to is the antecedent -memorize them!

7 Personal Pronoun Chart
Pronouns Personal Pronoun Chart Singular Plural 1st person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours 2nd person you, your, yours 3rd person he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its they, them, theirs

8 Reflexive Pronoun Chart
Pronouns Reflexive Pronoun Chart Singular- self Plural- selves 1st person myself ourselves 2nd person yourself yourselves 3rd person himself, herself, itself themselves

9 Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns: used to point out a specific noun when by themselves -this, that, these, those -Example: The tacos I made taste better than those.

10 Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns: introduce a question
-who, whom, whose, which, what Ex. Which of the songs is your favorite? Relative Pronouns: introduce subordinate clauses (not a complete thought) -that, which, who, whom, whose Ex. The ship that you saw is sailing to Greece.

11 Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns: refers to more than one noun all each
most one another either much other any everyone neither several anybody everything nobody some anyone few none somebody anything many no one something both more nothing such

12 Adjectives Definition: modifies nouns or pronouns Recognition Tools:
Ex. happy, bright, yellow Recognition Tools: -Adj. answers: What kind? Which one? How many? How Much

13 Adjectives Articles -a, an, and the are ALWAYS adjectives

14 Adjectives Nouns as adjectives
-Many words that can stand alone as nouns can also be used as adjectives modifying nouns or pronouns. Ex. cheese sandwich, snow sculpture weather report

15 Verbs Definition: what you do or a state of being Recognition Tools:
Ex. run, think, been (forms of be) Recognition Tools: -action of the subject or other noun

16 Verbs Helping Verbs- “helps” the main verb express an action or a state of being Helping Verb Chart Forms of be am, are, is been, being, be was, were Forms of have has have had Forms of do do does did Modals can, could, may might, must, shall should, will, would

17 Verbs Action Verbs: physical or mental activity
Ex. build, think Linking Verbs: connect subject to the complement Ex. is, are, was Other Linking Verbs: appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn

18 Adverbs Definition: modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
Ex. extremely, completely, slightly Recognition Tools: -Adverbs answer: How? When? Where? To what extent? How often? How much? How long? -by ending “-ly”

19 Prepositions Definition: show relation between a noun and the object
Ex. of, in, under Recognition Tools: -prepositional phrases preps the object

20 Prepositions Common Prepositions about before concerning like since up
above behind down near through upon across below during of throughout with after beneath except off to within against beside for one toward without Among between from out under along beyond in outside underneath around but (except) inside over until at by into past unto

21 Prepositions Don’t forget that prepositions can be compound as well. Ex. according to, because of, next to

22 Conjunctions Definition: joins words, phrases, or clauses, and they indicate the relation between the elements joined. Ex. but, yet, so Recognition Tools: junction -MEMORIZE

23 Conjunctions Coordinating Conjunctions Correlative Conjunctions
FANBOYS -for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Correlative Conjunctions -They come in pairs -both…and -neither…nor -either…or

24 Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions- -Introduces a subordinating clause (a phrase that cannot stand alone as a sentence.) -AAAWWUBBIS (as, after, although, while, when, until, because, before, if, since)

25 Subordinating Conjunctions
after because since when although before so that whenever as even though than where as if if though wherever as long as in order that unless whether as soon as once until while

26 Interjections Definition: express emotion and have no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence Ex. ah, oops, hey, yippee Recognition Tools: -sometimes have exclamation or a comma following them


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