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The Parts of
Speech
English
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There Are 8 Parts of Speech
1. Nouns
2. Pronouns
3. Adjectives
4. Verbs
5. Adverbs
6. Prepositions
7. Conjunctions
8. Interjections
Nouns
Definition: Person, Place, Thing, or Idea
Ex. boy, mall, toothpick, peace,
strength
Recognition Tools:
-”the” in front of common nouns except ideas
-you can take a picture of them
Nouns
Common Nouns: name any one person, place,
thing, or idea and is generally not capitalized.
Ex. woman, school, flag, happiness
Proper Nouns: name a specific person, place, thing,
or idea and generally is capitalized.
Ex. Sally, Granite City High School, St. Louis Arch,
September
Nouns
Compound Nouns: made up of two or more words
used together as a single noun. (They may be written
as one word, separate words, or as hyphenated words.)
Ex. firefighter, fire drill, brother-in-law
Collective Nouns: words that name a group of a
people, animals, or things.
Ex. audience, flock, assortment
Pronouns
Definition: Stands in place of a noun.
Recognition Tools:
-related to nouns
-the word they refer to is the
-memorize them!
antecedent
Pronouns
Personal Pronoun Chart
Singular
Plural
1st person
I, me, my, mine
we, us, our, ours
2nd person
you, your, yours
you, your, yours
3rd person
he, him, his, she,
her, hers, it, its
they, them, theirs
Pronouns
Reflexive Pronoun Chart
Singular- self
Plural- selves
1st person
myself
ourselves
2nd person
yourself
yourselves
3rd person
himself, herself,
itself
themselves
Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns: used to point out a
specific noun when by themselves
-this, that, these, those
-Example: The tacos I made taste better than
those.
Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns: introduce a question
-who, whom, whose, which, what
Ex. Which of the songs is your favorite?
Relative Pronouns: introduce subordinate clauses (not a
complete thought)
-that, which, who, whom, whose
Ex. The ship that you saw is sailing to Greece.
Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns: refers to more than one
noun
all
each
most
one
another
either
much
other
any
everyone
neither
several
anybody
everything
nobody
some
anyone
few
none
somebody
anything
many
no one
something
both
more
nothing
such
Adjectives
Definition: modifies nouns or pronouns
Ex. happy, bright, yellow
Recognition Tools:
-Adj. answers: What kind?
Which one? How many? How Much
Adjectives
Articles
-a, an, and the are ALWAYS adjectives
Adjectives
Nouns as adjectives
-Many words that can stand alone as nouns
can also be used as adjectives modifying nouns
or pronouns.
Ex.
cheese sandwich,
snow sculpture
weather report
Verbs
Definition: what you do or a state of
being
Ex. run, think, been (forms of
be)
Recognition Tools:
-action of the subject or
other noun
Verbs
Helping Verbs- “helps” the main verb express an
action or a state of being
Helping Verb Chart
Forms of be
am, are, is
been, being, be
was, were
Forms of have
has
have
had
Forms of do
do
does
did
Modals
can, could, may
might, must, shall should, will,
would
Verbs
Action Verbs: physical or mental activity
Ex. build, think
Linking Verbs: connect subject to
the complement
Ex. is, are, was
Other Linking Verbs:
appear, become, feel, grow, look,
remain, seem, smell, sound, stay,
taste, turn
Adverbs
Definition: modifies verbs, adjectives,
and other adverbs
Ex. extremely, completely, slightly
Recognition Tools:
-Adverbs answer: How?
When? Where? To what
extent? How often? How
much? How long?
-by ending “-ly”
Prepositions
Definition: show relation between a
noun and the object
Ex. of, in, under
Recognition Tools:
-prepositional phrases
preps the object
Prepositions
Common Prepositions
about
before
concernin
g
like
since
up
above
behind
down
near
through
upon
across
below
during
of
throughout with
after
beneath
except
off
to
within
against
beside
for
one
toward
without
Among
between
from
out
under
along
beyond
in
outside
underneat
h
around
but
(except)
inside
over
until
at
by
into
past
unto
Prepositions
Don’t forget that prepositions can be compound as well.
Ex. according to, because of, next to
Conjunctions
Definition: joins words, phrases, or clauses, and
they indicate the relation between the elements joined.
Ex. but, yet, so
Recognition Tools:
-connects @ junction
-MEMORIZE
Conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions
FANBOYS
-for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Correlative Conjunctions
-They come in pairs
-both…and
-neither…nor
-either…or
Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions-Introduces a subordinating
clause (a phrase that
stand alone as a
sentence.)
-
cannot
AAAWWUBBIS
(as, after, although, while, when,
until, because, before, if, since)
Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
after
because
since
when
although
before
so that
whenever
as
even though
than
where
as if
if
though
wherever
as long as
in order that
unless
whether
as soon as
once
until
while
Interjections
Definition: express emotion and have no
grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence
Ex. ah, oops, hey, yippee
Recognition Tools:
-sometimes have exclamation or
a comma following them