Download The Parts of Speech - Indian River State College

The Parts of Speech
A Review
Nouns
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Nouns are words that name a person,
place, object, or idea.
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There are two types of nouns:
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Common: Common nouns are unnamed.
Words like teacher, city, religion, and state are
common nouns
Proper: Proper nouns are named and must be
capitalized.
Nouns are often preceded by the articles A,
An, or The.
Nouns
Common
teacher
city
religion
state
Proper
Instructor Ranne
Miami
Buddhism
California
Pronouns
A pronoun is used to replace a common or
proper noun:
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Theresa and Danny went to the concert
together.
They went to the concert together. It
wasn’t very good.
Pronouns
There are three pronoun cases:
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Subject Pronouns: I, you, we, they, he,
she, and it
Object Pronouns: me, you, us, them, him,
her, and it
Possessive Pronouns: my/mine,
your/yours, our/ours, their/theirs, his,
hers, its
Verbs
Verbs tell us something important about the
subject of the sentence:
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Action verbs: What it is doing, has done,
or will do
Linking verbs: What its state of being or
condition is. These link the subject to a
description of it.
Helping verbs: Join the main verb to form
verbs of more than one word
Adjectives
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Adjectives are used to describe nouns.
Adjectives answer the questions: Which?
How many? What kind?
Adjectives may be directly in front of the
noun they describe.
Adjectives may appear after a linking verb.
Adverbs
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An adverb is used to describe verbs,
adjectives, and other adverbs.
Adverbs answer the questions: When? How
often? To what degree? In what way?
Adverbs often, but not always, end in -ly
Prepositions
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A preposition is a word that explains the
relationship between a noun and other
words in the sentence.
Prepositions are words that demonstrate
time, location, direction, or position, such
as in, on, at, for, from, to, with, etc.
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There are MANY prepositions.
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A preposition is always followed by a noun.
Interjections
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Interjections are words that indicate
emotion.
Interjections often begin a sentence.
Interjections can be followed by a comma
or an exclamation point, depending on how
strong an emotion is being demonstrated.
Identifying Interjections
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Wow, that’s a beautiful car!
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Oh! I forgot to bring my books.
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Hey, Tara says class is cancelled.
Conjunctions
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Conjunctions are connecting words.
Conjunctions join words or groups of words
while explaining their relationship to each
other
There are two kinds of conjunctions.
 Coordinating
 Subordinating
Conjunctions
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Coordinating conjunctions join words,
groups of words, or sentences of equal
importance.
Use FANBOYS to remember the
coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor,
but, or, yet, so.
Conjunctions
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Subordinating conjunctions do not join
single words, only groups of words or
sentences.
The word groups they bring together are
NOT of equal importance to each other.
There are MANY subordinating
conjunctions. Some common ones include:
although, since, while, because.
That’s it!
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Your review of the parts of speech
is complete.