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Previous Slide Next Slide 1 • Definition: • Person, Place, Thing, or Concept • I worked on school work this week. Previous Slide Work and week are the nouns in this sentence. It is tempting to label school a noun, but in this sentence, school is not a thing but description for a type of work. Next Slide 2 • Examples: • The movie begins with loud explosion. Movie is a thing as is explosion. Both are the nouns in this first sentence • The woman on the poster was looking at the faces of the people she saw. Previous Slide Woman, poster, faces and people are all nouns in this sentence. Next Slide 3 • Definition: • Stand-in for a Person, Place, Thing, or Concept: • I, He/ She/ It, They, We, You In the first sentence, Wendy is a noun. • Wendy (noun) worked on school work this week. • She (pronoun) worked on school work this week. Previous Slide In the second sentence, she has replaced Wendy. She stands in for Wendy in the second sentence. Next Slide 4 • Examples: In the first sentence, I is a pronoun that stands in for whomever is speaking. His is a stand in for whomever owns the car. • I bought his car at an auction. • That is their only choice because he has them over a barrel. In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the people who have the choice. Them again refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the choice. Previous Slide Next Slide 5 • Definition: • Modifies or describes a noun • Wendy worked on school (adjective) work this (adjective) week. School tells us what kind of work and this tells us which week. Both of these are adjectives because they give us the type of noun. They describe the noun. Previous Slide Next Slide 6 • Examples • The biggest television in the store was left on. • Tennis courts are good. Previous Slide Next Slide 7 • Definition: • Action • Can might must may should will are all helping verbs. • I was very happy when I woke up this morning. Previous Slide Next Slide 8 • Examples: • I bought a car for my brother. • He drove it to work. Previous Slide Next Slide 9 • Definition: • Describe the kind of action or the way an action was performed or modifies an adjective. • Usually words that end in –ly are adverbs. • Not, never are adverbs • I worked quickly the whole weekend. Previous Slide Next Slide 10 • • • • • Definition: Connector Words For And Nor But Or Yet So (FANBOYS) However Nevertheless Although • If you go to the movies, buy some popcorn because that stuff is great. • My weekend was very entertaining, and I worked quickly the whole weekend. • My weekend was very entertaining, for I worked quickly the whole weekend. Previous Slide Next Slide 11 • • • • • Definition: Location words In on over under Location in time: before after during Location of meaning: of with • Before the movie, we should go to the restaurant at the mall. Previous Slide Next Slide 12 • Definition: • Exclamations! • Wow • Swear words • Wow! That is a nasty cut. Previous Slide Next Slide 13 Example of all 8 parts of speech in a sentence: Prep. Adj. Noun Adj. Adj. Noun Verb Adj. The water in the water hose watered the lawn because it needed watering. Noun Conj. Verb Noun Pronoun Previous Slide Next Slide 14 To further master this concept, click below for a quiz: 8 Parts of Speech Quiz Previous Slide Next Slide 15