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Grammar-1
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Parts of Speech
Name: _____________
No. _______________
Try to find the eight traditional word classes in the following nursery rhyme:
A noun’s the name of anything;
As school or garden, hoop or swing.
Adjectives tell the kind of noun;
As great, small, pretty, white or brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns stand:
Me and mine, you and yours, he, she -- and
Verbs tell of something being done:
You read, count, sing, laugh, jump or run.
Hoe things are done the adverbs tell;
As slowly, quickly, not or well.
Conjunctions join the words together;
As men and women, wind or weather.
The preposition stands before
A noun; as in or through a door.
The interjection shows surprise;
As Oh! How pretty! Ah! How nice!
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Nouns: __________________________________________________________
Nouns come in many forms:
1.
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
Common nouns
Proper nouns
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Concrete nouns
Abstract nouns
3.
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
Collective nouns
4.
Compound nouns
5.
Singular nouns
Plural nouns
Finding rules
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dog-dogs; cat-cats; test-tests
dish-dishes; match-matches;
class-classes; box-boxes
Rule 1:
Rule 2:
fly-flies; city-cities;
battery-batteries; baby-babies
day-days; key-keys; boy-boys
knife-knives; life-lives
shelf-shelves; leaf-leaves
potato-potatoes; zoo-zoos
zero-zeros/zeroes
Rule 3:
child-children; foot-feet;
goose-geese; man-men;
mouse-mice; tooth-teeth
Rule 6:
Rule 4:
Rule 5:
Adjectives:________________________________________________________
Adjectives answer one of three questions:
What kind? How many? Which one?
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Adjectives come in many forms:
definitions
examples
Common
adjectives
Proper
adjectives
Demonstrative
adjectives
Using adjectives to compare
1. The positive level describes one
thing.
2. The comparative level compares
two things.
3. The superlative level compares
three or more things.
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Pronouns: ________________________________________________________
Pronouns come in many forms:
1.
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
Personal
pronouns
Possessive
pronouns
2.
Demonstrative
pronouns
3.
Indefinite
pronouns
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4.
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
Reflexive
pronouns
5.
Intensive
pronouns
6.
Interrogative
pronouns
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Verbs:____________________________________________________________
Verbs come in many forms:
1.
definitions
examples
definitions
examples
Action verbs
Linking verbs
2.
Regular verbs
Irregular verbs
Verb tenses
Present tense
I go to school every day.
Past tense
I ________ to school last week.
Future tense
I ___________ to school next Monday.
Present perfect tense
I _____________ to school by bus for years.
Past perfect tense
I ______________ to fourth grade before I started fifth grade.
Future perfect tense
I _______________ to school for three months before we get a
break.
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Adverbs:_________________________________________________________
functions
examples
Adverbs and
verbs
Adverbs and
adjectives
Adverbs and
adverbs
Comparing adverbs:
I run fast enough to make the track team, but Amy runs faster, and Tommy runs
fastest.
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Conjunctions:_____________________________________________________
Conjunctions come in many forms:
definitions
examples
Coordinating
conjunctions
Subordinating
conjunctions
Correlative
conjunctions
Adverbial
conjunctions
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Prepositions:______________________________________________________
definitions
examples
Prepositions
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Interjections:______________________________________________________
definitions
examples
Interjections
Parts of speech
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