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Parts of Speech
Review
Ms. Weiss 9th Grade
Sentences
Contain a subject and a verb
Sentences are made up of parts of speech
like articles, nouns, or adjectives, which
function in different ways depending on
how they are used in the sentence.
The ninth grade English teacher is boring.
Article, adjectives, noun, verb, adverb
Identify the Noun
The children ate candy.
The children ate candy.
What is a noun?
Is it the subject of the sentence?
What is the verb?
The children ate candy.
Is it the action of the sentence?
Pronouns and modifiers
You know what an adjective is, right?
The short blond teacher is pretty. They
describe the noun.
A pronoun replaces a noun (person, place,
or thing): The girls eat pie. They like it.
Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or
other adverbs.: later, here, quickly, very.
The teacher is very boring. Boring is an
adverb describing the verb “is”, while very
describes another adverb, boring.
Verbals: verbs acting as other parts of
speech
 Infinitives like: to be, to see, to understand
 Participles which are verbs pretending to
be adjectives: The singing waiter croaks
like a frog. They can also end in -ed
Gerunds are verbs that act as nouns.
When a verb is the subject of the sentence
it is a gerund: Swimming is Serena’s
favorite activity.
The Direct Object
Asks what or to whom the action is
happening.
Zippy played soccer with a grapefruit.
The space alien from the planet Zortek
accidentally locked his keys in his space
ship.
After giving my dog Oreo a scoop of
peanut butter, she always kisses me with
her sticky tongue.
Identify the parts of speech
Stuart is a twenty-three year-old boy who
fixes computers all day long.
My best friend Crystal is very pretty.
Who is that?
This lesson is so boring and difficult.
How does it function in the sentence?
What information does the sentence give?
Who or what is the sentence about? Noun
What do we know anything about this
person or thing? Adjectives
What is that person or thing doing? Verb
When, why, or where is it happening?
Adverb
To what degree is this happening? Adverb
Diagramming Sentences
 Stuart is a twenty-three year-old boy who fixes
computers all day long.
Noun, verb, article, adjectives, pronoun, verb, direct
object, adverb, adjective.
 My best friend Crystal is very pretty.
Pronoun, adjectives, noun, verb, adverb, adjective
 Who is that? Pronoun, verb, pronoun
 This lesson is so boring and difficult.
Pronoun, noun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction,
adjective