8 Parts of Speech

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8 Parts of Speech

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Noun

• person
• place
• thing
• idea

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Proper Noun

• -- a specific person, place,
• thing, quality, or idea

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Noun and Proper Noun

• holiday noun
• Valentines Day
• proper noun

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Noun and Proper Noun

• tower noun
• Eiffel Tower proper noun

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Noun and Proper Noun

• doctor a noun
• Dr. Nancy Jones
• a proper noun

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Nouns and Proper Nouns

• doctor
• lady
• building
• city
• shoe
• college
• girl
• boy

• Dr. Smith
• Mrs. Jones
• The Capital
• LaGrange, Ga.
• Nike
• West Georgia Technical College
• Kaley
• Hudson

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Pronoun

• A word that takes the place of a noun or noun
• phrases and designates persons or things
  asked for, previously specified, or understood
  from the context
• Examples
• he, she, we, me
• I, us, him, himself, her, herself
• them, themselves
• our, ours
• their, theirs
• you, your, yours
• somebody, someone

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Note

• Theirselves is NOT a word.

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Pronoun

• Select the correct pronoun.
• Each of the beautiful girls
• (are, is) going to love (their, her)
• new evening gown.

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Tip in helping find a subject-and-verb
agreementin the previous sentence

• Remove (for a moment) the prepositional phrase
  from the sentence.
• Then, read the sentence again.
• This will help you find the subject which, in
  this case, is singular.
• So, you need a verb that matches your subject.
• Verb is
• Pronoun her

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Pronoun

• In the previous sample sentence, the correct
  pronoun is her.
• Each (of the beautiful girls)
• is going to love her
• new evening gown.
• Each and her are both singular.

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Pronouns that are singular (most of the time)

• anyone
• everyone
• no one
• someone
• each
• none
• one

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Interjection

• A short exclamation
• Example
• Ouch! That needle hurts!

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More interjections

• Wow!
• Oh!
• My!
• Goodness!
• Oh my goodness!
• Gracious!
• Awesome!
• Terrific!

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Another Interjection

• Wow! That baby rabbit is so cute!

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VerbA part of speech that expresses existence,
action, or occurrence

• Verbs show or can be one of the following
• Action (run, see, look, go, blink)
• Linking (appears, seems)
• State of Being (to be verbs
• is, are, was, were)

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Verb (action)

• walk, walks
• The woman in that office walks by his desk every
  single day.

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Verb (action)

• burn
• I always burn the toast on Saturday mornings
  however, I never burn the toast on Sunday
  mornings.

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Verb (action)

• Go
• I go to the vet.
• Go to the vet now.

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Verb (state of being)

• To be
• is, are, was, were
• The man is the very best of all the candidates.
• She was very nice.

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Verb (linking)

• Seem
• Appear
• Example
• Those white roses
• seem to be dying.
• Those white roses
• appear to be dying.

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Adjective

• A word that describes or modifies a noun or
  pronoun
• Examples good, bad, ugly

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More Adjectives

• mean --- sweet
• ugly --- beautiful
• blue, green, or blue-green
• rough --- smooth
• big ------ little
• curly ---- straight

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More adjectives

• The battered old ship was sitting at the dock.
• The aqua-blue water called my name.
• The one-year-old boy was my neighbor.

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Adverb

• A word that describes a verb, an adjective, or
• another adverb
• Example
• very
• ever
• never
• too
• quickly
• tenaciously
• generously

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Adverb

• Adverbs also show
• where
• when
• how
• to what extent

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More Adverbs

• never I never intend to marry you.
• ever --- I never ever intend to
• marry you.
• really ---- Did you really think that I
• would ever marry you?

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Some adverbs that do not end in ly.

• now very
• often today
• tomorrow more
• yesterday Monday
• even April
• so
• sometime

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Adjectives and AdverbsWith many adjectives, you
can add ly to the end of them.They then become
adverbs.

• Adjective
• calm
• sweet
• sincere
• poor
• quick
• loud
• generous
• rare

• Adverb
• calmly
• sweetly
• sincerely
• poorly
• quickly
• loudly
• generously
• rarely

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Conjunction

• A part of speech (i.e. as and because) that
  connects words, phrases, clauses, and sentences
• Examples
• and, but, or, nor
• nevertheless
• however
• because
• as
• when

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PrepositionA word placed before a substantive
and indicating the relation of that substantive
to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive

• Examples
• of, to
• with, without, within
• in, out
• inside, outside
• over, under
• through, throughout
• beneath, around
• on, off

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Prepositions

• Many times, when you think of one preposition,
  think of its opposite.
• That way, if you are trying to memorize all 64
  prepositions, this just might help you.