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* Nouns
* Pronouns
* Adjectives
* Interjections
* Prepositions
* Verbs
* Adverbs
* Conjunctions
 Person, place, thing, or
idea
 Proper
Noun: particular person, place,
thing, or idea (capitalized)
• EX: February, Mr. Jones
 Common
Noun: everyday names of
people, places, things, or ideas
• EX: month, school, country
 Concrete
Noun: (most nouns) name
things that can be seen, felt, heard,
touched, or smelled
• EX: star, water, flower, basketball
 Abstract
Noun: name concepts, beliefs, or
qualities
• EX: freedom, capitalism, courage
 Compound
Noun: consists of more than 1
noun but count as one word
• EX: Minooka Community High School, Illinois
State University
 Collective
Noun: names of persons, places,
or things that are sometimes counted as 1
unit (considered to be singular) are are
sometimes counted separately (considered
plural)
• EX: army, herd, pack, family
A
word that takes the place of a noun
 Personal
Pronoun: represent people or
things
• EX: I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us,
they, them
 Possessive
Pronoun: show ownership
• EX: mine, yours, hers, his, theirs, ours
 Demonstrative
Pronoun: demonstrates or
points out someone or something
• EX: this, that, these, those
 Relative
Pronoun: relates 1 part of the
sentence to another
• EX: who, whom, which, that, whose
 Reflexive
Pronoun: (sometimes called
intensive pronoun) reflects back to
someone or something else in the
sentence
• EX: myself, himself, itself, ourselves,
yourselves, themselves
 DON’T
use a reflexive pronoun in a
sentence if you haven’t already specified
whom or what you’re talking about.
 Interrogative Pronoun: asks a question
• EX: who, whom, which, whose, what
 Indefinite
Pronoun: (opposite of name)
refers to a specific person (group) that has
already been mentioned
• EX: all the “bodies”, all the “things”, all the
“ones”
• EX: each, either, neither = SINGULAR
• EX: few, both, many, several = PLURAL
• SAMAN (some, all, most, any, none) Can be both
SINULAR OR PLURAL
 Word
that modifies (describes) a noun or
a pronoun
• EX: The framed picture came crashing off the
wall during the earthquake.
 Ask
these questions to see if it’s an
adjective:
• 1. Which one?
• 2. What kind?
• 3. How many?
 Definite
Article: names someone or
something specific
• EX: the
 Indefinite
Article: does not name
anything specific
• EX: a, an
 Word
that can either express surprise or
some other kind of emotion. It can also be
used as a filler.
• EX: Hey, like, well, ouch, oh
• EX: Ouch! Did you step on my toe?= STRONG
EMOTION (!)
• EX: Like, what’s going on?= MILD EMOTION (,)
 **Use
in moderation, in dialogue, not formal
writing.**
 PREPOSITION: tells
the position of
something.
A
word that links a noun or pronoun to
some other word in a sentence.
• EX: Jack and Jill went up the hill.
 (Up is the preposition connecting went and hill.)
• EX: Little Jack Horner sat in a corner.
• EX: Sing a song of sixpence.
 To
tell if a word is a preposition, ask
yourself if it fits in this sentence:
• It went _________ the thing(s).
• ACADEMIC RULE: Don’t end a sentence with a
preposition.
About
Behind
Down
Off
To
Above
Below
During
On
Toward
Across
Beneath
Except
Onto
Under
After
Beside
For
Out
Underneath
Against
Between
From
Outside
Until
Along
Beyond
In
Over
Up
Among
But
Inside
Past
Upon
Around
By
Into
Since
With
At
Concerning
Like
Through
Within
Before
Despite
Of
Throughout
Without
A
word that expresses action or being.
 1. Action
verbs are most common.
• EX: Marilyn jumped for joy when Frank
called her.
• EX: The frog sits on top of the lily pad in the
lake.
 Transitive Verb: a
verb that takes an
object (can answer: Whom? or What?)
• EX: I carried the injured boy to the waiting
ambulance.
 (I carried whom?)
• EX: The mailman gave the package to Mrs.
Smith.
 (The mailman gave what?)
• Write a sentence with a transitive verb.
 Intransitive Verb: a
verb that does not
have an object (preposition follows verb)
• EX: Exhausted after a hard day’s work, I sank
into the sofa with great delight.
• EX: Mary looked after the children.
• Write a sentence with an intransitive verb.
 2. Being Verb: expresses “being” AKA
linking verbs
• EX: AM, IS, ARE, WAS, WERE, BE, BEING, BEEN
• EX: I be sitting on the dock of the bay.
• Change to: ________________.
• EX: Yesterday she be listening to music.
• Change to: ________________.
 3. Helping Verb: (auxiliary
verb) can join
the main verb to express the voice, mood,
and tense of the verb.
• EX: Frankie ______ go to the movies tonight.
Can
Must
Would
Could
Shall
Be
May
Should
Do
Might
Will
 1. A
word that modifies (describes) a
verb, adjective, or other adverb.
 ADVERB(AD=
Adverb & Adjective; VERB)
• EX: Yesterday, the quite relieved soldier very
quickly ran out of the woods when he saw his
comrade frantically waving at him.
 Ask
these questions to determine if it is
an adverb:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
How?
When?
Where?
Why?
Under what circumstances?
How much?
How often?
To what extent?
 2. Conjunctive
Adverbs: AKA transition
words
Accordingly
However
Hence
Therefore
Also
Incidentally
Moreover
Thus
Besides
Indeed
Nevertheless
Still
Consequently
Instead
Next
Meanwhile
Finally
Likewise
Otherwise
Furthermore
 1. Coordinating
Conjunction: combines
phrases and clauses
• For
• And
• Nor
• But
• Or
• Yet
• So
 2. Correlative
Conjunction: CANNOT
STAND ALONE! They must have a relative
near by!
• Both/and
• Either/or
• Neither/nor
• Not only/but also
• Not only/also
 3. Subordinating
Conjunction: These are
used at the beginning of DEPENDENT
clauses (words that have a subject & verb
but cannot stand alone).
• EX: after, although, as long as, because,
since, that, than, while, whether, etc…