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The 8 Parts of Speech
What are the eight parts of speech?
Noun
 Pronoun
 Adjective
 Verb
 Adverb
 Preposition
 Conjunction
 Interjection
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Nouns
What Nouns Name
Persons: Mr. Johnson, mother,
woman, Maria
 Places: city, home, Texas, Canada
 Things: house, ring, shoe, table,
desk, month, light
 Ideas: grief, democracy, courage,
obedience
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Pronouns
Pronouns
Pronouns
take the
place of…
nouns to name
persons, places, things,
or ideas.
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Adjectives
Adjectives
 basic
definition: Adjectives
modify NOUNS and
PRONOUNS.
Articles = Adjectives
The,
a, and an are called
articles.
Articles are always
adjectives.
They modify nouns and
pronouns.
Identify the Adjectives:
1.
The two dark cats were walking on the
fence.
1. “The” = Article
2. “two” = answers “how many?”
3. “dark” = answers “what kind?”
4. “the” = article
2.
These southern countries have dry
weather.
1.
2.
3.
“These” = answers “which?”
“southern” = answers “what kind”
“dry” = answers “what kind”
Another example:
 The
chocolate one is his last
cookie.
• “The” = article
• “chocolate” = What kind
• “his” = Possessive Pronoun as adj…answers
“whose”
• “last” = answers “how many”
Verbs
Verbs
A
verb is a word that:
• expresses action
• makes a statement
• links relationships.
Action Verbs
 Action
verbs do just that.
They demonstrate action.
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Examples: Jim hit the ball.
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Susie cooked spaghetti.
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Joey drove the tractor.
Linking Verbs
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Linking verbs make statements OR
they express links and relationships.
Examples, statements:
She is a good girl.
He is a football player.
Examples, links/relationships:
She is my mother.
That boy is my neighbor.
Special List of Linking Verbs
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Linking verbs are on a special list. Here is
that list:
Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has
been, have been, had been, will be, shall
be, may be, would have been, should have
been, can be, should be, would be (any
combination that ENDS with be or been.)
seem, become, taste, feel, smell, sound,
look, appear, grow, remain, stay
Examples
What is the verb in each sentence? Is it
an action or a linking verb?
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The tree grew to be quite tall.
The man grew weary.
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She is looking at the picture.
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She is looking paler by the minute.
Adverbs
Adverbs
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Adverbs modify:
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Verbs
Adjectives
other adverbs.
Adverbs answer these questions:
WHERE?
WHEN?
HOW?
HOW OFTEN?
TO WHAT EXTENT?
Commonly Used Adverbs
 Commonly
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used Adverbs:
Here, there, away, up -- tell WHERE
Now, then, later, soon, yesterday -- tell WHEN
Easily, quietly, slowly, quickly -- tell HOW
Never, always, often, seldom -- tell HOW OFTEN
Very, almost, too, so, really -- tell TO WHAT EXTENT
Examples
1. The two dark cats were walking slowly
on the fence.
 2. Now it is time to trim the very long
grass in the front yard.
 3. She is never too easily frightened
away.
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Interjection
Interjection
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An interjection is a word that
expresses:
• a strong feeling
• command.
 They
have no grammatical relation
to the rest of the sentence.
Examples
Wait!
I am not finished.
Great, I would love to go
to the beach.
Conjunction
Conjunction
Conjunctions
are
words that join words
or groups of words
Coordinating Conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions include: for,
and, nor, but , or, yet, so (FANBOYS)
 These conjunctions connect words,
phrases, and clauses of equal value.
 Clauses of equal value are called
INDEPENDENT CLAUSES and can stand
on their own as separate sentences.
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Example
John
is running in this race,
and I am carrying his water
bottle.
Prepositions
Prepositions
Prepositions
show
relationships between
nouns or pronouns and
other words in a
sentence.
Most Commonly Used
Prepositions
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Aboard, about, above, across, after,
against, along, among, around, at, before,
behind, below, beneath, beside, between,
beyond, by, down, during, except, for,
from, in, into, like, of, off, on, over, past,
since, through, throughout, to, toward,
under, underneath, until, up, upon, with,
within, without
Any..
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