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GRAMMAR
By:
Caroline Metcalf-Vera
& Casey Flinn
Parts Of
Speech:
NOUN
A noun is a person, place, thing, or
idea.
Person: Casey, Caroline, teacher
Place: Bird Middle School, Walpole
Thing: ipod, book, rain, nail polish
Idea: love, integrity, freedom, luck
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word used in place of
one or more nouns.
Personal Pronouns: I, me, mine, you,
him, her, ours…
Reflective & Intensive Pronouns:
myself, ourselves, himself, herself,
itself...
Adjectives
An adjective is a word used to modify
a noun or pronoun.
Ex. The girl is wearing jeans.
The girl is wearing worn, ripped,
jeans.
Verb
A verb is a word used to express
action or a state of being.
Types of Verbs: action verb (jump),
transitive and intransitive verb (held
and played), and linking verbs (am).
Adverb
An adverb is a word used to modify a
verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Hint: many adverbs end in “ly”.
Ex. Suddenly, carefully, nearby,
promptly, quickly, fast, here…
Prepositions
A preposition is a word used to show the
relationship of a noun or a pronoun to
another word in the sentence.
Aboard, about, after, against, along, among,
around, at, behind, below, between, down,
during, for, from, in, into, inside, like, near,
of, off, on, over, out, through, towards, up,
until, upon, with, within, without….
Interjections
An interjection is a word used to express
emotion. It does not have a grammatical
relation to other words in the sentence.
Interjections show excitement and emotion
and are usually followed by and
exclamation point, or by a comma when the
feeling’s not a strong.
Ex. Ow!, Yay!, Wow,…
Conjunction
A conjunction is a word used to join words
or groups of words.
Ex. And, but, or, nor, for, so, yet…
Both girls and boys went to the park for a
picnic.
Compliments
A compliment is a word or
group of words that
completes the meaning of a
verb
Direct Objects
A direct object is a noun or pronoun that
receives the action of the verb or shows the
results of an action. A direct object tells
what or whom after an action verb.
Ex. She sent a picture to her grandmother.
She sent what? She sent a picture.
Indirect Objects
An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that
comes between the action verb and the
direct object and tells to what and to whom
or for what or for whom the action of the
verb is done.
Ex. She sent a picture to her
grandmother.
To whom? To her grandmother.
Predicate Nominatives
A predicate nominative is a noun or pronoun
that follows a linking verb and identifies the
subject or refers to it.
Ex. The music on the radio is rock.
The predicate nominative is rock because
the subject is music and “on the radio” is a
prepositional phrase.
Predicate Adjectives
A predicate adjective is an adjective that
follows a linking verb and describes the
subject.
Ex. Her hair is dirty blonde.
The predicate adjective is dirty blonde
because it is describing the subject, hair.