Download 1. Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech
Grammar for TS4
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Question
• Can you name any parts of speech? How do we call
the words we are using in English?
Parts of Speech:
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs
• Adverbs
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Adjectives
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
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Parts of Speech
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Nouns
Can you give an example of a noun?
Which questions does a noun answer?
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Nouns
The names of persons, places, things,
feelings, or ideas. Nouns usually answer the
questions who or what.
Nouns are divided into proper nouns and
common nouns. Do you know what is the
difference between them?
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Proper Nouns
A proper noun, which names a specific person,
place, or thing (Carlos, Middle East, Malaysia,
God, Spanish, Buddhism, Monday etc.), is almost
always capitalized.
Other examples of proper nouns?
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Common Nouns
Common nouns name everything else (table,
weather, juice, horse, etc.), things that usually
are not capitalized.
Can you give any other examples of common
nouns?
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Pronouns
Pronouns are words which take the place of
nouns to keep from repeating the nouns over
and over in a sentence or paragraph.
Can you give any examples of pronouns?
The most common pronouns are: I, he, we, she,
they, me, him, us, her, them, it, this, that, who,
which, what.
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Possessive Pronouns
One form of pronoun shows possession or
ownership. These possessive pronouns work
like adjectives, describing nouns.
Examples?
Possessive pronouns include the words my,
mine, his, her, hers, our, ours, their, theirs, your,
yours, its, and whose.
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Verbs
Verbs are words which show action or doing.
All sentences must have at least one verb.
Verbs change form to show a difference in time.
If you change a sentence from present to past,
or past to present, the words which change are
verbs.
Can you give any examples of a verb?
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Verbs
Complete verbs may include two or more verbs
working together and consisting of a main verb
and "helping verbs“ or auxiliaries.
The only words that can be helping verbs are:
• can, could, will, would, shall, should, may,
might, must -- (always helping verbs)
• have, has, had, do, does, did, be, am, is, are,
was, were, been, being -- (helping or main)
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Adjectives
Adjectives are words which describe nouns.
What questions can adjectives answer?
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Adverbs
Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other
adverbs.
What questions can adverbs answer?
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Prepositions
Prepositions are common words which begin
prepositional phrases (groups of words which
work together). Prepositional phrases always
start with a preposition and end with a noun or
pronoun, and the entire phrase describes other
words.
Most prepositions indicate time, place, or
position.
Examples?
On, in, at, between, from, under,…
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Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words which connect words,
phrases, or sentences.
Examples?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so, …
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Words which express emotion or are "fillers" in
sentences, but which serve little other function
are called interjections.
Examples?
Ah, oh, ouch, wow, ...
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