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Parts of Speech.notebook
September 02, 2014
Noun
A noun is a word or word group that is used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
Persons
Jessye Norman, teacher, chef, Dr. Ling
Places
Grand Canyon, city, Namibia, kitchen
Things
lamp, granite, Nobel­
Prize, Golden Gate Bridge
Ideas
happiness, self­control, liberty, bravery
noun
Noun
Group Practice: Underline the nouns.
1. Rebecca Motte was a great patriot.
2. During the Revolutionary War, British soldiers seized her mansion in South Carolina.
3. General Harry Lee told Motte that the Americans would have to burn her home to smoke out the enemy.
4. Motte supported the plan and was glad to help her country.
5. She even supplied flaming arrows and a bow for the attack.
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Noun
Independent Practice: Underline the nouns.
1. The house was saved after the enemy raised the white flag of surrender.
2. Other people might not have been so generous or patriotic.
3. Afterward, Motte invited soldiers from both sides to dinner.
4. How their laughter must have filled the air.
5. The colonies and all citizens of the United States are in her debt.
noun practice
Verb
A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being.
Examples: We celebrated the Chinese New Year yesterday.
The holiday is usually in February.
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Verb
Types of verbs include:
action verbs
linking verbs
main verbs and helping verbs
verb
Verb
Group Practice: Underline the verb.
1. For a science project, Elena built a sundial.
2. Mr. Santos carefully explained the word problem to each of the students.
3. This is Roberto Martinez, your weather forecaster.
4. Have you ever visited Redwood National Park?
5. The giant trees there can be an awesome sight.
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Verb
Independent Practice: Underline the verbs.
1. I enjoy soccer more than any other sport.
2. This waterfall drops two hundred feet.
3. Outside the window here at Station WOLF, the skies appear cloudy.
4. I certainly felt rain earlier this morning.
Verb practice
So...
Noun + Verb = Sentence
subject predicate
Example: Sally jumped.
The girl danced around.
Marcas was tired.
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Action Verbs
What is an action verb?
List some examples of action verbs.
An action verb is a verb that expresses either physical or mental activities.
The owls hooted all night.
Gloria plays volleyball.
Are these physical or mental?
She thought about the problem.
I believe you.
*Action verbs can be transitive or intransitive (we will cover this later :))
Action verbs
Action Verbs
Group practice: Identify each action verb in the sentence.
1. For a science project, Elena built a sundial.
2. Mr. Santos carefully explained the word problem to each of the students.
3. I enjoy soccer more than any other sport.
4. This waterfall drops two hundred feet.
5. Mike's bicycle suddenly skidded and fell hard on the wet pavement.
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Action Verbs
Independent practice: Identify each action verb in the sentence.
1. Mrs. Karras showed us the way to Johnson City.
2. Mix the ingredients slowly.
3. The heavy traffic delayed us.
4. For the Jewish holiday of Purim, Rachel and her sister Elizabeth gave a party.
5. The early Aztecs worshiped the sun.
Action verb practice
Linking Verbs
What is a linking verb?
What is a linking verb's job?
What are some examples of linking verbs?
A linking verb is a verb that expresses a state of being. A linking verb connects, or links, the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject.
Denzel Washington is an actor.
The children remained quiet.
*Linking verbs never have objects (words that tell who or what recieves the action of the verb). Therefore, linking verbs are always intransitive.
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Marcus is tired.
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Some Forms of the Verb Be
am
were
will be
can be
is
has been
shall be
should be
are
have been
may be
was
had been
might be
would have been
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Other Linking Verbs
appear
grow
seem
stay
become
look
smell
taste
feel
remain
sound
turn
Examples: ACTION: Amy looked through the telescope.
LINKING: Amy looked pale.
Examples: ACTION: Stay in your seats.
LINKING: Stay calm.
linking verb list w/examples
Linking Verbs
Group Practice: Identify the linking verb in each of the following sentences.
1. This is Roberto Martinez, your weather forecaster.
2. Unfortunately, the forecast looks bad today.
3. Outside the window here at the Station WOLF, the skies appear cloudy.
4. It certainly felt rainy earlier this morning.
5. According to the latest information, it should be a damp, drizzly day with an 85 percent chance of rainfall.
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Linking Verbs
Independent Practice: Identify the linking verb in each of the following sentences.
1. Our sportscaster this morning is Marta Segal.
2. Things have been quiet here around Arlington for the past few days.
3. Stay alert for sports action tonight.
4. It should be an exciting game between our own Arlington Angels and the visiting Jackson City Dodgers.
5. The team looked great at practice today, and I predict a hometown victory.
linking verb practice
Helping Verbs
A helping verb helps the main verb express action or a state of being.
Examples: can speak
has been named
were sent
should have been caught
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Helping Verbs
A verb phrase contains one main verb and one or more helping verbs.
Examples:
Many people in Africa can speak more than one language.
The packages were sent to 401 Maple Street.
Kansas has been named the Sunflower State.
The ball should have been caught by the nearest player.
Commonly Used Helping Verbs
am
been
Forms are
of Be
be
Forms do
of Do
being
is
Forms have
of Have
can
Other Helping could
Verbs
may
was
were
does
did
has
had
might
must
would shall
will
should
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Helping Verbs
Some verbs can be used as either helping or main verbs.
HELPING VERB: Do you like greenbeans?
MAIN VERB: Did you do this math problem?
HELPING VERB: Is she arriving at noon?
MAIN VERB: Her luggage is over there.
HELPING VERB: Have they arrived yet?
MAIN VERB: They have a dog.
HELPING VERB: Where has he gone?
MAIN VERB: He has his homework in his backpack.
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Helping Verbs
Sometimes a verb phrase is interrupted by another part of speech. Often the interrupter is an adverb. In a question, however, the subject often interrupts the verb phrase.
Examples:
Our school has always held a victory celebration when our team wins.
Did you hear Jimmy Smits's speech?
Should Anita bring her model airplane to class?
Ken does not have a new desk.
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Helping Verbs
Group practice: Underline the verb phrase in the following sentences. Circle the helping verbs.
1. Have you ever visited Redwood National Park?
2. The giant trees there can be an awesome sight.
3. For centuries, these trees have been an important part of the environment of the northwest United States.
4. Surely, these rare trees must be saved for future generations.
5. More than 85 percent of the original redwood forest has been destroyed over the years.
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Helping Verbs
Independent practice: Underline the verb phrase in the following sentences. Circle the helping verbs.
1. Because of this destruction, the survival of the redwood forest is being threatened.
2. With proper planning years ago, the forest might already have been saved.
3. Unfortunately, redwood forests are still shrinking rapidly.
4. According to some scientists, redwood forests outside the park will disappear within our lifetime.
5. However, according to other experts, the redwood forests can still be saved.
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`] Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
A transitive verb is a verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, a place, a thing, or idea.
*With transitive verbs, the action passes from the doer­­the subject­­to the receiver of the action. Words that receive the action or a transitive verb are called objects.
Examples:
Derrick greeted the visitors.
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
An intransitive verb expresses action (or tells something about the subject) without the action passing to a receiver, or object.
Examples:
The train stopped.
Last night we ate on the patio.
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
**A verb may be intransitive in one sentence and transitive in another.
Examples:
The children play checkers.
The children play quietly.
Mr. Lopez is baking bread.
Mr. Lopez is baking this afternoon.
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Guided Practice: Identify the underlined verb in each of the following sentences as either transitive or intransitive.
1. If you do different kinds of exercises, you are exercising in the correct way.
2. When you exercise to improve endurance, flexibility, and strength, your body develops.
3. Aerobic exercise builds endurance and strengthens the heart and lungs.
4. When you walk quickly, you exercise aerobically.
5. Many active people in the United States attend classes in aerobics.
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Independent Practice: Identify the underlined verb in each of the following sentences as either transitive or intransitive.
1. They enjoy the fun of exercising to popular music.
2. Exercises that improve flexibility require you to bend and stretch.
3. Perform the exercises slowly to gain the maximum benefit from them.
4. Through isometric and isotonic exercises, your muscle strength increases.
5. These exercises contract your muscles.
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Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
Examples:
Ask Dan if Dan has done Dan's homework.
Ask ____ if ____has done ____ homework.
Both of Lois's friends said both would help Lois find Lois's missing books.
Both of Lois's friends said _____ would help____ find _____ missing books.
Aug 26­9:01 AM
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
Examples:
Ask Dan if Dan has done Dan's homework.
Ask ____ if ____has done ____ homework.
Both of Lois's friends said both would help Lois find Lois's missing books.
Both of Lois's friends said _____ would help____ find _____ missing books.
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Pronouns
The word or word group that a pronoun stands for (or refers to) is called its antecedent.
Frederick, have you turned in your report?
Walking the dog is fun, and it is good exercise.
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A reporter talked to Mrs. Bea Zwack after Mrs. Bea Zwack's home was struck by a tornado.
Jack Zwack spent most of Jack Zwack's time cleaning up the yard.
Nick, Mack, and Patty Zwack are staying with Nick, Mack, and Patty Zwack's neighbors.
The Zwacks now have a healthy respect for tornadoes and tornadoes power.
his
its
her
her their
him
their
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The reporter finally submitted the reporters assignment to the editor of the newspaper.
The newspaper featured tornadoes on the newspapers front page.
Subscribers that read the story and saw the pictures realize that the subscribers could have been the victims of the storm.
A mature person is responsible for a mature person's actions.
her
its
their
his or her
they
their
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