PARTS OF SPEECH

 

What Does Part of Speech Mean?

·        Each part of speech explains not what the word is but how the word is used.

 

The Eight Parts of Speech

1.     Verb

2.     Noun

3.     Pronoun

4.     Adjectives

5.     Adverbs

6.     Prepositions

7.     Conjunctions

8.     interjection

 

More Details

Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next.

 

Adverbs

·        Adverb

·        An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another verb, a phrase, or a clause.

·        The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes.

 

Example of Adverbs

Carefully

Faithfully

Sincerely

 

Let’s Take a Closer Look!

·        Verb

·        A verb “is what you do!”

·        I will run, hop, and skip down the track.

 

Here come the nouns!

·        Noun

·        A noun is a person place or thing.

·        Ms. Arruda is going to Vegas this weekend.

 

Additional Pronouns

 

·        Personal Pronouns

·        A personal pronoun refers to  specific person or thing and changes its form to indicate person, number, gender, and case.

·        Possessive Personal Pronouns

·        A possessive pronoun indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of possession and defines who owns a particular object or person.

·        (mine, yours, hers, his, its, ours theirs)

 

Additional Pronouns Continued

·        Interrogative Pronouns

·        An interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions.

·        (who, whom, which, what and the compounds formed with suffix “ever”).

 

Still More Pronouns!

·        Demonstrative Pronouns

·        A demonstrative pronoun points to and identifies a noun or a pronoun.

·        (this, that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns)

 

What about the Adjectives?

·        Adjectives

·        An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying, or qualifying words.

·        The truck-shaped balloon floated over the treetops.

 

Conjunctions

 

·        You can use Conjunctions to link words, phrases, and clauses.

·        I ate the pizza and the pasta!

 

Prepositions

·        Prepositions

·        A preposition links nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence.

·        (on, against, over, during, beneath, beside)

 

What is an Interjection?

·        Interjections

·        An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.

·        (Ouch!, Hey!)

 

Parts of Speech Poem (by Kim Vetter)

·        A noun’s the name of anything,

·        As house or garden, hoop, or swing.

·        Instead of nouns the pronouns stand-

·        Her head, your face, his arm, my hand.

·        Adjectives tell the kind of noun,

·        As great, small, pretty, white, or brown.

·        Verbs tell of something to be done-

·        To read, count, sing, talk, laugh, or run.

·        How things are done the adverbs tell,

·        As slowly, quickly, ill, or well.

 

Poem Continued

 

·        Conjunctions join the words together, As men and women, wind or weather.

·        The preposition stands before

·        A noun, as in or through a door.

·        The interjection shows surprise,

·        As Oh! How Pretty; Ah! How wise.

·        That’s why we learn the parts of speech

·        Which reading, writing, speaking teach.

·        ‘Cause grammar needs to be correct

·        To help you earn the world’s respect.


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