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zParts of Speech Review
The Parts of Speech are:
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adverbs
Adjectives
Prepositions
zParts of Speech Review
Nouns: A noun is a person, place,
thing, or idea.
There are two types of nouns:
Common Nouns which tell us the name of a
person, place, or thing in general like cat,
dog, or house.
Proper Nouns tell us a specific person place
or thing, Mr. Trapp, the White House, Stout
Middle School.
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Nouns: A noun is a person, place,
thing, or idea.
Nouns can also be
CONCRETE or ABSTRACT
If you can touch it or see it, it is CONCRETE.
Examples: book, pencil, table, door, etc.
If it is a thing or idea, but you can not touch it or physically see it,
it is considered ABSTRACT.
Examples: coldness, the heat, love, sadness, etc.
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Pronouns : A pronoun is a word
that can take the place of a noun.
Instead of Mr. Trapp, we can say he.
Instead of the government, we can say they.
Instead of the dog we can say it.
Subject PRONOUNS: I, you, he, she, it, we, they
Object PRONOUNS: me, him her, them, us
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Adjectives : Adjectives are words
that are used to modify or describe
nouns.
Instead of just saying, the book, we
can say the amazing, outstanding,
interesting, popular book.
We use adjectives to make our sentences
more interesting and specific.
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Verbs: Verbs are used to show an
action or a state of being.
Verbs can be telling about something that
happened in the past, is happening in the present,
or will happen in the future. They can even be
used to explain that one thing happened before
another in the past (Past Perfect Tense)
Yesterday I ran.
Today I’m running.
Tomorrow I will run.
First, I had run to the store
before coming home.
Past Perfect Tense
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Verbs: Verbs are used to show an
action or a state of being.
Verbs can be telling about something that
happened in the past, is happening in the present,
or will happen in the future. They can even be
used to explain that one thing happened before
another in the past (Past Perfect Tense)
Yesterday I ran.
Today I’m running.
Tomorrow I will run.
First, I had run to the store
before coming home.
Past Perfect Tense
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Adverbs : Adverbs are words that
are used to modify or tell us about
verbs. They can tell us things like
how, when, and where a verb
happened.
The bird flew away quickly as the car approached.
The students got to work slowly on their assignment.
The genius cleverly figured out how to travel through
time.
This class is going to be over soon.
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Prepositions: Prepositions are
words used to connect nouns or
pronouns into phrases that can give
us additional information in a
sentence like where, time and
place, or in what direction
something is happening.
to the store (where)
over the fence (where)
after the storm (time)
to the left (direction)
for her friend (adds info)
before the quiz (time)
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BONUS INFORMATION
Articles: The, a, and an introduce
nouns.
a car
the door
an apple
the bird
a bird
an ostrich