Parts of Speech Review

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Parts of Speech Review

• Developed for English Works!
• by Ellen Beck and Dawn Taylor.

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Nouns

• A noun is a the name of a person, place, thing,
  quality, concept or action

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Nouns

• The first letters of some nouns are capitalized
  to show a specific name or title (Alan). These
  are called proper nouns.
• Other nouns that are not specific do not use a
  capital letter (man). These are called common
  nouns.
• Nouns that have a singular and plural form are
  called count nouns. Nouns that only have a
  singular form are called non-count nouns.

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Nouns

• Nouns function in many ways

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Verbs

• A verb is a word that tells what the subject of
  the sentence does, says, thinks, or feels. 
• Sometimes the verb shows movement (jump) or
  sometimes it shows how a thing is or that it
  exists (is).
• The verb also shows time which is called tense.
  The form of the verb or its tense can tell when
  events take place.

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Linking Verbs

• A linking verb links, or joins, the subject of a
  sentence with an adjective, a noun, or a pronoun.
• The rose is pretty. I am a doctor. That
  was it.
• All the forms of the verb be are linking verbs
  
• am, are, is, was, were, been
• Other linking verbs include sensory words that
  link the subject with an adjective, a noun, or a
  pronoun.
• The rose smells lovely. The kitten feels soft.
• The band sounds great.
• Other linking verbs
• appear (look) grow (become) seem stay
• become look sound taste
• feel remain smell

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Adverbs

• Adverbs modify or describe verbs (run fast),
  adjectives (often sad), or other adverbs (too
  often).
• Adverbs often, but not always, end in -ly.
• A test for deciding if a word is an adverb is to
  think about the word's function. Adverbs tend to
  tell where, when, or how.
• Examples
• very pretty, most unhappy, never angry, come
  soon

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Adverbs

• Adverbs often answer three questions

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Adjectives

• Adjectives are words that describe a noun. Ugly,
  funny, big, round, and loose are all examples of
  adjectives. Some less
  obvious examples are that dog, her bone,
  enough food, every room.
• Adjectives can also describe how much or how
  many fewer friends, less food, more people.

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Adjectives
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Adjectives
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Pronouns

• Pronouns are words that take the place of a noun.
  
• Example
• Carol is nice. She is also pretty.

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Conjunctions

• A conjunction is a word that connects phrases,
  words, or clauses.
• Conjunctions are often used as transitions.

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Conjunctions

• There are two kinds of conjunctions

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Prepositions

• Prepositions are words that express the relation
  of a noun or pronoun to another word in the
  sentence. Prepositions show the relationships
  among things, people, and places.
• Examples of, with, after, as, at, until
• Prepositional phrases must begin with a
  preposition and must end with a noun or pronoun.

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Interjections

• An interjection is an exclamatory word (or words)
  that shows strong or sudden feeling and has no
  grammatical function in the construction of a
  sentence.
• Oh! Alas! So! Wow! Cool!