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Parts of speech
Parts of Speech
• There are eight parts of speech.
Here are some of their highlights.
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Articles
Verbs
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
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information.
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Nouns
• A noun is a name.
• A noun is the name for a person, a place,
a thing, an idea, an activity, a feeling.
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NOUNS
Pronouns
• They are the words that substitute
the nouns.
• Personal or subject pronouns
(Before the verb)
• Object pronoungs (after the verb
or a preposition)
The chef grilled the meat.
He grilled it.
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Adjectives
• The adjectives are words that talk about
the attributes of a person, place, thing, or
activity. That is, adjectives modify nouns.
• Nouns can work as adjectives modifying
another noun.
• Adjectives usually go before the noun
they modify.
• Adjectives can come after a linking verb.
Adjectives
Adjectives usually go before the noun
they modify.
The sunny day invited to have a picnic.
adjective
noun
Adjectives can come after a linking verb.
The day is sunny.
Verbs
Verbs refer to an action (do, break, walk,
etc.) or a state (be, like, own).
• Examples
He does exercise every other day.
She owns a house in Alabama.
All sentences must contain one.
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Verbs: Modals
• Modal verbs are used to express ideas
such as possibility, intention, obligation
and necessity.
CAN, COULD, WILL, WOULD, SHALL,
SHOULD, OUGHT TO, DARE and NEED
are some examples.
Prepositions
• A preposition is a word that links a noun,
a pronoun or a gerund to other words,
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They can have a variety of meanings:
Direction- We are going TO the mall.
Location- The car is IN the garage.
Time- They will come home AFTER the
concert.
• Possession- The leg OF the table
Conjunctions
A type of word that is used to connect
words or groups of words.
Traditionally, conjunctions are used to
connect words within a sentence.
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In traditional English grammar, the
types of conjunctions are as follows:
coordinating conjunctions (which
connect two words, sentences or
phrases of equal grammatical status),
Example: We can go to the movies or
to the theater.
Subordinating conjunctions (which
subordinate a word or phrase to
another)
Examples:
If I were sick, I would see a doctor.
… and
Correlative conjunctions
(which come in pairs)
• Either we go to the movies or we
go to the theater.
• He neither came nor called to say
he was not coming.
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Adverbs
• Adverbs are words that modify verbs,
adjectives and other adverbs.
• This very smart student studies quite
hard for his exams.
• In the sentence,
the adverb very modifies the adjective smart.
the adverb hard modifies the verb studies.
the adverb quite modifies the adverb hard.
Articles
• There are three articles in English: a, an and the.
• They always go before a noun.
• A/an refers to countable singular nouns. They
refer to any person, place or thing.
• I want a porter to help me carry my luggage.
• (It can be any of the porters working at the
station)
• They wanted to have a nice, relaxing meal.
• The article the refers to a specific place,
person or thing. The can be used with
countable (singular and plural) and
uncountable nouns.
• The video I watched was excellent.
• (Specific, singular, countable.)
• The sugar in my coffee is not enough.
• (specific, uncountable)
• The children played videogames.
• (specific, plural)
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