* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download - West Point High School
Navajo grammar wikipedia , lookup
Morphology (linguistics) wikipedia , lookup
Lithuanian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old Irish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Zulu grammar wikipedia , lookup
Chinese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Compound (linguistics) wikipedia , lookup
Macedonian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Arabic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Portuguese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ukrainian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Preposition and postposition wikipedia , lookup
Ojibwe grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old Norse morphology wikipedia , lookup
Japanese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Latin syntax wikipedia , lookup
Russian declension wikipedia , lookup
Vietnamese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ancient Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Romanian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Hebrew grammar wikipedia , lookup
Swedish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Italian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Icelandic grammar wikipedia , lookup
Yiddish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old English grammar wikipedia , lookup
Sotho parts of speech wikipedia , lookup
Spanish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Malay grammar wikipedia , lookup
Esperanto grammar wikipedia , lookup
Pipil grammar wikipedia , lookup
Turkish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Romanian nouns wikipedia , lookup
Scottish Gaelic grammar wikipedia , lookup
French grammar wikipedia , lookup
Polish grammar wikipedia , lookup
SOL 10.8, 11.8 A noun is a word or group of words that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea. They bought a new car. The horse is brown. The black horse is ran through the open gate. TYPES OF NOUNS Common nouns Names any one group of persons, places, things, or ideas Not capitalized Proper nouns Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea Begins with a capital letter TYPES OF NOUNS Common nouns • • • • • • • • • • woman teacher city country monument team book holiday religion language Proper nouns • Aunt Sara Mr. Hardin New Kent Japan The Lincoln Memorial The Redskins • The Scarlet Letter • Valentine’s Day Judaism French • • • • • • • We are reading Treasure Island this week. Our school is located in West Point. Mr. Layne coaches football. Star Wars is Ichi’s favorite movie. My son likes Space Jam, and his favorite player is Michael Jordan. TYPES OF NOUNS Concrete nouns Names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses • • • • • • • photograph music pears filmmaker sandpaper rose Brooklyn Bridge Abstract nouns Names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic • • • • • • • • love fun freedom self-esteem beauty honor wisdom Buddhism I have great sadness for those who live without love. His health was excellent. The sorority had a strong sisterhood. PRONOUNS is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns Ex. When Cindy Davis came to the bus stop, she was wearing a cast. Ex. This stable is large. It has stalls for thirty horses. ANTECEDENT ~ is the word or word group that a pronoun stands for Ex. 1: ~This stable is large. It has stalls for thirty horses. Pronoun - __________ Antecedent __________________ Ex. 2: ~ When in Cindy Davis came to the bus stop, she was wearing a cast. Pronoun - ________ Antecedent _________________ PRACTICE – CIRCLE THE PRONOUN & UNDERLINE THE ANTECEDENT 1. My aunt went to the store, and she bought bread. 2. The dog ran through the field. He ran back to his owner with a stick. 3. My aunt sold her car. 4. Anthony, call your mother! 5. After Janet saw the movie, she talked to Caroline. 6. The student study for his test. 7. After Kim ran the half marathon, she started preparing for a marathon. 8. The book fell the desk and landed on its spine. An adjective is a word that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The articles – a, an, the – are adjectives. 1. The tall professor was able to reach the top of the board. 2. The loquacious student was unusually quiet during his presentation. 3. The contract requires a solid commitment to the arduous job. 4. A month's pay disappeared easily after paying the bills. 5. A six-year-old child should be required to make his own bed. 6. The unhappiest, richest man can’t find happiness in money when there’s no loving family at home. VERBS: - a word that expresses action or state of being Verbs Action Verbs Linking Verbs Helping Verbs Shows action Shows state of being ~ links to an adjective Helps another verb (the main verb) run swim eat read think jump fly is are was were being been am shall will should would could must That student came to school early. Dr. Jackson is at the door. The other bus was late. The students ran to school. We flew to Boston last April. The dog barked all night. ADVERBS Definition: A word that modifies a verb, and adjective, or another adverb. It’s job: An adverb answers one of four questions in a sentence: 1. Where 3. How 2. When 4. To what extent ADVERBS THAT MODIFY VERBS drove off- (where?) stayed ran late - (when?) fast completely - (how?) missed- (to what extent?) ADVERBS THAT MODIFY ADJECTIVES rather special - (to what extent?) ADVERBS THAT MODIFY ADVERBS Not really happy- (to what extent?) 1. Start labeling all the parts of speeches that you know. 2. What do you have left? The snow melted quite rapidly last spring. Claire has become a surprisingly good pianist. That color suits you very well. Mr. Whitkins seems somewhat dissatisfied with this assignment. We completed our chores fairly early. The careful attention to details ensured a truly festive party. I almost forgot what I wanted to ask you. Our new house is very nearly ready. That is an exceptionally clever design. The storm almost totally destroyed the railroad bridge. A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in the sentence. A preposition always has at least one noun or pronoun as an object. This noun or pronoun is called the object of the preposition. The preposition and its object makes up what is called prepositional phrase. Relationship between I and the box 1. ABOVE 2. ON 3. AROUND 4. INSIDE 7. OUT 5. IN 6. INTO 10. NEAR 8. UNDER 9. BENEATH 2. over 1. up The Cat and the Tree 3. down 4. off 5. between 9. behind 6. beside 7. below 8. against Commonly Used Prepositions aboard between past about beyond since above by through across down throughout after during till against except to along for toward among from under around in underneath at into until before like up behind of upon below off with beneath on within beside over without Some Compound Prepositions according to in addition to next to aside from in place of on account of because of in spite of out of A JOINING OR “CONNECTING” WORD COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS A coordinating conjunction is a connecting word that connects two or more independent clauses (main clauses) ,For ,And ,Nor ,But ,Or ,Yet ,So SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS A subordinating conjunction connects a subordinate (dependent) clause to a main (indepedent) clause. after how till ( or 'til) although if unless as inasmuch until as if in order that when as long as lest whenever as much as now that where as soon as provided (that) wherever as though since while because so that before than even if that even though though …is a word or phrase showing emotion or surprise which has no grammatical relationship to any other words or part of a sentence.