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Parts of Speech Review
CST Review
Nouns
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
• Singular Noun: names one
person, place, thing, or
idea.
• Plural Noun: names more
than one person, place,
thing, or idea.
• Proper Noun: names a
specific person, place,
thing, or idea.
• Common Noun: names
any person, place, thing,
or idea.
Singular
Plural
student
students
bench
benches
truth
truths
hotel
hotels
Proper
Common
Thomas Alvarez
man
Canada
country
Sears Tower
building
the Bronze Age
age
Nouns Continued
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
• Concrete: names things that
you can recognize with your
senses.
• Abstract: name ideas,
qualities, or feelings.
• Collective: gives a single
name to a group of
individuals.
• Compound: nouns that are
made up of two or more
words.
• Possessive: names who or
what owns or has something.
Concrete
Abstract
Collective
inventor
idea
crowd
city
progress
committee
calendar
time
family
jazz
culture
team
Compound
Possessive
doorknobs
a girl’s coat
mailboxes
children’s voices
sisters-in-law
bakeries’ cakes
dining rooms
boys’ shoes
Nouns Continued
Names a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Plural: add an –s to the end of the noun.
Singular Possessive: add an –’s to the end of the noun.
Plural Possessive: add an –s’ to the end of the noun.
Difference between a contraction and a possessive:
– Katarina’s homework is perfect. (possessive)
– Katarina’s preparing for the test. (contraction of Katarina is)
• Appositives: a noun placed next to another noun to
identify it or add information about it.
– My brother, Jeff, will accompany me to the boat.
• Appositive Phrase: a group of words that includes an
appositive and other words that describe the appositive.
– Jeffery Barber, a distinguished geologist, will speak at the
Science Club meeting.
Identify the underlined word as either: plural,
possessive, contraction, or appositive.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Herb, the server, deserved a large tip.
The children laughed at the monkeys in the cage.
The Newmans’ vacation was last month.
Sheila’s on her way to the skating rink.
Verbs
• A word that names an action and tells what a subject does.
– Action verbs: can express physical or mental actions.
• Transitive: followed by a direct object. (what? / whom?)
– Shawn painted landscapes and portraits.
• Intransitive: does not have a direct object.
– Shawn painted beautifully.
– Linking Verbs: connects the subject of a sentence with a word
in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject.
• Common Linking Verbs: to be, appear, feel, look, seem, sound, taste,
become, grow, remain, smell, stay, turn.
– Helping Verbs: helps the main verb tell about an action or make
a statement.
• The girl is calling her parents. (is – helping verb / calling – main verb)
– Verb Tenses: tells when the action takes place
• Past: -ed
Present: -s or -es
Future: “will” before the verb
Find the Verbs
1. I will ride home (Past, Present, Future)
2. Susi drew portraits.(Transitive / Intransitive)
3. She is going to regret not trusting me.
(Underline the helping verb once
and the main verb twice)
Adjectives
• A word that provides information about the size, shape, color, texture,
feeling, sound, smell, number or condition of a noun or a pronoun.
– Predicate Adjective: always follows a linking verb.
• Movies are popular throughout Europe and America.
– Proper Adjectives: formed from proper nouns (always begin with a
capital letter.)
• Maria practiced Irish step dancing on Mondays and Italian
cooking on Thursdays.
– Comparative Adj.: adjectives that compare two things.
– Superlative Adj.: adjectives compares more than two things.
Adjective
Comparative
Superlative
good
better
best
bad
worse
worst
many
more
most
much
more
most
little (amount)
less
least
Adjectives Continued
– Demonstrative Adj.: point out something or someone
and describes nouns
• this, that, these, those
• Answers the questions: which one(s)?
– Articles:
• Definite Articles – the
• Indefinite Articles – a / an
Find the Adjectives
1. I like that flower. (Which one? that flower)
2. I like red flowers. (What kind? red flowers)
3. I picked two flowers. (How many? two flowers)
Adverbs
• A word that modifies, or describes a verb, an adjective, or another
adverb.
– Intensifiers: an adverb that emphasizes an adjective or another adverb
• This information is rather new so it won’t be in the encyclopedia.
– Comparative Adv.: adverbs that compare two actions.
– Superlative Adv.: adverbs compares more than two actions.
Adverb
Comparative
Superlative
well
better
best
badly
worse
worst
little (amount)
less
least
far (distance)
farther
farthest
far (degree)
further
furthest
Find the Adverb
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2.
3.
4.
5.
We ate breakfast quickly. (How? quickly)
I visited the garden today. (When? today)
We weed the garden daily. (How often? daily)
Plant the vegetables here. (Where? here)
It is too hot to work in the garden.
(How much? too)