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Welcome.
Today is September 8th.
Word of the day: Cavernous adj. Resembling a
cavern, as in depth, vastness, or effect
You need your journal and something to write
with.
You need your folder, your Chosen book, and
something to write with.
Grammar Tuesday
Parts of Speech
9 Parts of Speech
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Verb
Noun
Pronoun
Conjunction
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Article
Interjection
Verbs
Express
Physical action
Mental action
State of being.
1.
2.
3.
In a triathlon, you RUN, SWIM, and RIDE a
bike.
He THOUGHT hard about joining the team.
She WAS sad.
Noun -Person, place, thing, idea
First Group
(What is it?)
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Proper nouns:
○ People, places
OR
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Common nouns:
○ Things, ideas
Second Group
(How is it working in
the sentence?)
● Subjects
○ What are we talking
about? What is doing
the action?
○ The Implied Subject
OR
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● Objects
○ What is being
affected?
Pronoun
Takes the place of the noun.
Bob took the money to Bob’s aunt and Bob’s aunt gave Bob
a receipt.
Bob took the money to HIS aunt and SHE gave HIM a
receipt.
Bob took the money to Bob’s uncle and Bob’s uncle gave
Bob a receipt.
Bob took the money to HIS uncle and HIS uncle gave HIM
a reciept.
Conjunctions
● Conjunctions: links parts of the sentence together
● Coordinating conjunctions
● Join two or more items
● FANBOYS (For And Nor But Or Yet So)
● Subordinating conjunctions
● Join an independent clause to something that cannot stand
alone (like a dependent clause or an adverb clause)
● After, although, as, as if, before, because, if, than, though,
unless, etc.
Describing Words
Adjectives
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Describe nouns
Adverbs
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Describe anything else
○ A
—djectives, verbs, other
The QUICK, BROWN
fox jumped over the
LAZY dog.
adverbs
The STUNNINGLY
beautiful girl ran
VERY QUICKLY
through the hall.
There will never be a standalone adjective or adverb; they
always connect to some word– the word they describe.
Prepositions
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Prepositions: gives relationships– temporal, spatial,
or logical
● The dog jumped ____________ the house.
● In, over, around, behind, over, under, across, through, next to, etc
Article
• A kind of adjective which defines a noun as
specific or unspecific.
• Definite: THE. Indicates a specific thing
• Indefinite: A/AN. Indicates a general or
unspecific thing.
Interjections
○Conveys emotion, and not usually linked
grammatically to anything else. Can stand
alone.
○OUCH! Eek! Ew! Ugh! @#$!
Got It?
Wow, the hungry cat chased the mouse under
the table and quickly ate it.
Egads! The mean professor assigns us work
daily and wants it on his desk by seven every
morning.