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Parts of Speech NOUN • Person, place, thing, idea • Common (n): names a general noun; begins with a lower case letter (i.e. city) • Proper noun (N): names a specific noun; begins with a capital letter (i.e. Alabaster) • Possessive (pos. n., pos. N): shows ownership (i.e. girl’s, Luci’s) PRONOUN (pro) • Takes the place of a noun – Personal pronouns: Singular Plural Singular nominative nominative objective (nom) (nom) (obj) Plural objective (obj) Singular possessive (pos) Plural possessive (pos) 1st person I we me us my/mine our/ours 2nd person you you you you your/yours your/yours 3rd person he/she/it they him/her/it them his/her/its their/theirs VERB •Shows action or helps to make a statement ACTION VERB (av) – Shows action (i.e. She wrote a note. The dog smells the flower.) LINKING VERB (lv) – Links two words together – Ex. of verbs that can be linking verbs: to be (am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been), appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, etc. – I.e. The flower smells pretty. (flower=pretty) HELPING VERB (hv) – “helps” an action verb or linking verb – If a verb phrase has four verbs, the first three are helping. If it has three verbs, the first two are helping, etc. – Ex. of verbs that can be helping verbs: is, be, am, are, was, were, been, being, will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must, have, has, had, do, does, did – i.e. We have been taking notes all day. (Taking is an action verb.) – i.e. She will be cold without a jacket. (Be is a linking verb.) ADJECTIVE (adj) • Modifies nouns and pronouns (i.e. I have a green pen. They are happy.) • Answers the questions “Which one?” “How many?” or “What kind?” • ARTICLES (art): a, an, the • PROPER ADJECTIVE (Adj): proper noun used as an adjective (American flag) ADVERB (adv) • Modifies adjectives (i.e. really cute), verbs (extremely fast), and other adverbs (very easily) • Answers the question “How?”, “When?”, “Where?”, or “To what extent?” • NOT and NEVER are always adverbs PRONOUN (pro)-cont. • RELATIVE (rp): starts adjective (adj) dependent clauses (that, which, who, whom, whose) • INTERROGATIVE (int): asks a question (Which?, Whose?, What?, Whom?, Who?) • DEMONSTRATIVE (dem): demonstrates which one (this, that, these, those) • INDEFINITE (ind): doesn’t refer to a definite person or thing (each, either, neither, few, some, all, most, several, few, many, none, one, someone, no one, everyone, anyone, somebody, nobody, everybody, anybody, more, much, another, both, any , other, etc.) PRONOUNS (pro)-reflexive (ref) • Reflects back to “self” Singular Plural 1st person myself ourselves 2nd person yourself yourselves 3rd person himself herself itself themselves PREPOSITION (prep) • Shows relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence • i.e. We went to school. We went up the stairs. • Common prepositions include: across, after, against, around, at, before, below, between, by, during, except, for, from, in, of, off, on, over, since, through, to, under, until, with, according to, because of, instead of, etc. CONJUNCTION • Joins words, phrases, and clauses • COORDINATING CONJUNCTION (cc): acronym FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) • SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION (sc): – Starts adverb (adv) dependent clauses (and therefore must be followed by subject and verb) – Ex: after, since, before, while, because, although, so that, if, when, whenever, as, even though, until, unless, as if, etc. • CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION (cor conj): – Ex: not only/but also, neither/nor, either/or, both/and INTERJECTION (int) • Expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence • Set apart from the sentence by a comma or an exclamation point • i.e. No, I’m not finished with my homework. Wow! What a great new car! VERB TENSES Present tense Past tense Future tense happening now (pres) happened previously “I jump.” (past) “I jumped.” will happen in the future (f) “I will jump.” PERFECT “have” or “has” plus past participle (pres per) “I have jumped.” “had” plus past participle (past per) “I had jumped.” “will have” or “shall have” plus past participle (f per) “I will have jumped.” PROGRESSIVE “is”, “are”, or “am” plus present participle (pres prog) “I am jumping.” “was” or “were” plus present participle (past prog) “I was jumping.” “will be” or “shall be” plus present participle (f prog) “I will be jumping.” PERFECT PROGRESSIVE “have” or “has” plus “been” plus present participle (pres per prog) “I have been jumping.” “had” plus “been” plus present participle (past per prog) “I had been jumping.” “will have” or “shall have” plus “been” plus present participle (f per prog) “ I will have been jumping.” VERBAL • A word formed from a verb but acting as a noun, adjective, or adverb • GERUND (ger) – Verb acting like a noun; ends in ING – i.e. Reading is fun. • PARTICIPLE (part) – Verb acting like an adjective; ends in ING, ED, or other past tense endings – i.e. I have running shoes. Frightened, I ran down the street. It’s an unspoken rule. • INFINITIVE (inf) – To + verb – Can act like a noun (I like to eat), adjective (It’s the best place to eat), or adverb (I need a pen to write a letter)