The Eight Parts of Speech

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The Eight Parts of Speech
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• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives

• Prepositions
• Adverbs
• Conjunctions
• Interjections

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Nouns

• Person
• Place
• Thing
• Idea

• Word that often comes with an article. (a, an,
  the)
• Words that can usually be made plural
• Have endings- hood, ice, dom, etc.

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Verbs

• Main Verbs
• a word that can change form
• past tense, base form, ends with an s.

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Verbs (cont.)

• Helping verbs
• have, has, had
• do, does, did
• be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been

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Pronouns

• A word that takes the place of a noun, words
  acting as a noun, or another pronoun. What the
  pronoun refers to is the antecedent.
• Some can be used as adjectives to modifying
  nouns.
• This is called pronoun/adjective.

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Pronouns (cont.)

• Personal (singular)
• 1st person I, me
• 2nd person you
• 3rd person he, him, she, her, it
• Personal (plural)
• 1st person we, us
• 2nd person you
• 3rd person they, them

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Pronouns (cont.)

• Possessive (singular)
• 1st person my, mine,
• 2nd person your, yours
• 3rd person his, her, hers, its
• Possessive (plural)
• 1st person our, ours
• 2nd person your, yours
• 3rd person their, theirs

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Pronouns (cont.)

• Interrogative- used to form questions.
• Who?
• Whom?
• Whose?
• What?
• Which?

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Pronoun ( cont.)

• Indefinite chart on page 442 of green grammar
  book.

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Adjectives

• Describes nouns and/or pronouns.
• Answers
• Which one?
• What kind of ?
• How many?

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Adjectives (cont.)

• Are normally before nouns or pronouns.
• When derived from another part of speech can take
  of the endings -ful, -ous, -able, -ish, -ible,
  -ing, -ly.
• The articles a, an, and the are also considered
  adjectives.
• Possessive, demonstrative, and indefinite
  pronouns can be used as adjectives.

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Prepositions

• A word that shows the relationship of a noun or
  pronoun to some other word in a sentence.
• Can be used as adjectives and adverbs.

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Common Prepositions

• About
• After
• Against
• Before
• Besides
• But
• For
• From
• into

• Like
• Of
• On
• past
• Since
• Throughout
• Toward
• Until
• With

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Commonly Used Prepositions
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Prepositions (cont.)

• Compound prepositions are prepositions made up of
  more than one word.
• According to
• Aside from
• Because of
• In addition to
• On top of
• etc.
• pg. 464 in grammar book.

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Adverbs

• Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb by
  being more specific.
• Answers
• How?
• When?
• Where?
• To what extent?

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Adverbs (cont.)

• There are different forms to show the degree of
  comparison.
• Positive
• Comparative
• Superlative

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Adverbs (cont.)

• A positive adverb has no comparison.
• A comparative adverb is a comparison of two
  actions.
• A superlative adverb is a comparison of one
  action with two or more other actions.

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Conjunctions

• A word that joins single words or groups of
  words and indicates the relation between the
  elements being joined.
• There are three types
• Coordinating
• Correlative
• Subordinating

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Conjunctions (cont.)

• Coordinating conjunction- connects grammatically
  equal elements.
• There are seven of them
• And, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

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Conjunctions (cont.)

• Correlative conjunction- come in pairs and
  connect grammatically equal elements.
• Six types
• Eitheror neithernor not onlybut also
  whetheror bothand just asso

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Conjunctions (cont.)

• Subordinating conjunction- joins two clauses, or
  ideas, so that one idea is grammatically
  dependent on the other.

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Most commonly used subordinating conjunctions

• After
• Although
• As
• As if
• Because
• Before
• Even though
• How
• If

• In order that
• Once
• Rather than
• Since
• So that
• Than
• That
• Until
• Whether

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Conjunctions (cont.)

• Conjunctive adverb- used to clarify relationship
  between clauses of equal weight.
• Normally used with a semicolon
• Usually serves as a transition between clauses.
• Makes a relationship between clauses stronger and
  clearer.

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Most commonly used conjunctive adverbs

• Consequently
• Finally
• Furthermore
• However
• Moreover
• Nevertheless
• Similarly
• Then
• Therefore

• Thus

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Interjections

• Words used to express surprise or emotion.
• Uses exclamation mark
• No grammatical connection.
• Examples
• Oh!
• Wow!
• Hey!