Parts of speech

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PARTS OF SPEECH

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PARTS OF SPEECH

The 8 “building blocks” ofthe English language…

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1. Person, place, thing or idea: “what or who”

2. Nouns are concrete like dogs and cars.

3. Or abstract like anger, liberty and friendship.

4. Common like desks, puppies and mother.

5. Or proper like Juanita, Radha, or India.

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NOUN

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• Radha is a pro-golfer

• The dog was very sad.

• The bakery has fresh cakes.

• Love is a beautiful thing.

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• A pronoun is a short word that takes the place of a Noun.

Pronouns can be:Subjects : he or sheObjects: him or herPossessive: his or hersIndefinite: nobody or allDemonstrative: this or those

Important: Always be sure the pronoun has a clear referent!

(If you use “they,” be sure the reader knows who “they” are.)

PRONOUN

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Sita and I went to see movie.

My uncle, who is an engineer, works at Sony.

Whose book is on our desk?

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A verb is the action of the sentence. It shows what someone or something is doing.

Read

VERB

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run paint

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• Ram runs everyday.

• Joe is painting the kitchen walls.

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An adverb is a descriptive word that tells more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb.• Adverbs tell how,

where and when .“The most commonly

used adverb in English is “very.”

• Many adverbs end in “ly”: quickly, carefully, & slowly…

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ADVERB

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He plays the flute beautifully.(after the object)

He swims well, (after the main verb)

He ate the chocolate cake greedily.

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ADJECTIVE• Adjectives are

descriptive words used to “modify” or tell more about Nouns

• And pronouns…

• Without colorful and precise adjectives, language would be pretty blah!

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Presenting a blue car, a red car and a light brown car…

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• They live in a beautiful house.

• He writes meaningless letters.

• Ben is an adorable baby.

• This glass is breakable.

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PREPOSITIONA preposition shows a

position relationship between two or more nouns

or pronouns.

These are short words (on, in, to) that usually stand in front of nouns (sometimes

also in front of gerund verbs).

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The relationship can be spatial:• “She walked through the door into the room.”

Or in time, as in the sentence below:

• “After the track meet, he was very tired.”

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CONJUNCTIONA conjunction is a word that joins words or word groups together. Some examples conjunctions

are:

and, but, or, nor, although, yet, so, either, and also.

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EXAMPLESWe ate pizza and drank coke for dinner.

I played cards for awhile, but then I played chess.

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He was lazy, therefore, e failed.

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INTERJECTION• An interjection is a

word (or words) of shock or surprise.

• It is usually used by itself and is followed by an exclamation point.

Examples are:

Wow!, Cool!, ouch, wow, uh oh, oh no,

gosh, shhhh Awesome! and so on…

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“Watch out! W

here’d this

rocket c

ome from???”

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EXAMPLESWow! That is a fine looking car.Hurray! It is a snow day and school is cancelled.Oh! I can’t believe how nice you look.Woops, I dropped the milk and it spilled.It is so exciting, my goodness, I just can’t believe it.

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