1. Part of Speech Grammar and Vocabulary Ⅰ April 15, 2011

2. Part of Speech English words are categorized into eight groups: Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Conjunction Pronoun Preposition Interjection

3. Noun A word which is the name of someone or something “Jack”, “table”, and “discomfort” are nouns

4. Verb A kind of word which shows what a person or thing is doing or the state it is in or what is happening to it Words like “eat” and “feel” are verbs

5. Adjective A kind of word which names a quality In a sentence “This is a heavy box”, “heavy” is an adjective

6. Adverb A word used with verb, adjective, or another adverb telling how, when, and where Jane carefully ( → how) washed her skirt yesterday ( → when) and hung it here ( → where)

7. Conjunction Word used for joining other words or statements “Jack and Jill went up a hill” We couldn’t drink the milk because it was too hot

8. Pronoun Word used in place of / in stead of a noun Words like “I,” “you,” “she,” “me,” and “them” are pronouns

9. Preposition Word placed before noun or pronoun to make clear its relation, especially of direction, to another word (in, to, at, etc.)

10. Interjection Words used as cry to make feelings clear “Oh, what a surprise!” “Ah, that’s wonderful!”

11. Matching Quiz Web-based Exercise

12. Exercise 2 (p.2) What kind of part of speech are the following underlined words?

13. (1) This watch is cheaper than that one. ⇒ noun (2) Is this story so funny? ⇒ adjective

14. (3) Who studies English hardest? ⇒ verb (4) I must tell you that you are wrong. ⇒ conjunction

15. (5) Do your work as earnestly as possible. ⇒ adverb (6) The subway station is at the next corner. ⇒ preposition

16. (7) “Hi, Mike. How are you?” “Oh, hi, Sue. I’m fine, thank you.” ⇒ interjection (8) Let me introduce myself. My name is Michael Smith. ⇒ pronoun

17. Phrase A group of words not a sentence, which we can understand. In the sentence: The book is on the table. – “on the table” is a phrase.

18. Exercise 3 (pp.2-3) Complete the following sentences using the words in the list (p.3)

19. (1) Parents must ( ) their children all the time. ⇒ take care of (2) We ( ) decide which way to go. ⇒ had to

20. (3) You can see a large park ( ), can’t you? ⇒ over there (4) People keep cats ( ). ⇒ to catch mice

21. (5) ( ) produce electricity. ⇒ Power stations (6) British and American people speak English ( ). ⇒ rather differently

22. For the next class… Check what kind of suffixes the following word endings are (p.1). -ize, -en -ment, -tion, -er, -ee -ic, -ical, -y -ly

23. In the next class… Derivation (pp.3-4) Vocabulary (p.85)

24. See you next week ！