Taken from Elements of Language

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Parts of Speech

• Taken from Elements of Language
• Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2001

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names a person, place, thing, or an idea
NOUN
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names a person, place, thing, or an idea
NOUN
4
names a person, place, thing, or an idea
NOUN
5
names a person, place, or thing
NOUN
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takes the place of a noun
PRONOUN

• 1. Personal Pronouns
• First Person I, me, my, mine we, us,
  our, ours
• Second Person you, your, yours
• Third Person he, him, his, she, her, hers, it,
  its
• they, them, their, theirs

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takes the place of a noun
PRONOUN

• 2. Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns
• myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself
• ourselves, themselves, yourselves,

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takes the place of a noun
PRONOUN

• 3. Demonstrative Pronouns
• this, that, these, those
• 4. Interrogative Pronouns
• who, whom, whose, which what
• 5. Relative Pronouns
• that, which, who, whom, whose

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takes the place of a noun
PRONOUN

• 6. Indefinite Pronouns
• all both few several
• another each many none
• neither other such most
• any either more some
• much one
• anybody everybody nobody somebody
• anyone everyone no one someone
• anything everything nothing something

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modifies a noun or pronoun
ADJECTIVE

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modifies a noun or pronoun
ADJECTIVE
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Adjective or Noun?

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Adjective or Pronoun?

• Walt Whitman wrote both poems. (adjective)
• Walt Whitman wrote both. (pronoun)

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expresses action or being
VERB

• Main verb auxiliary verbs verb phrase
• We should have been studying for the test.

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expresses action or being
VERB

• Auxiliary Verbs

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expresses action or being
VERB

• Action Verbs

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expresses action or being
VERB

• Common Linking Verbs

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expresses action or being
VERB

• A transitive verb has an object.
• 
  
  trans. D.O.
• The farmers in Americas heartland plant wheat in
  the spring.

An intransitive verb does not have an object.

intrans adv.
infinitive phrase In the fall the farmers work
diligently (to harvest the wheat).
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modifies a verb, adverb, or adjective
ADVERB

• Adverbs answer the following questions

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modifies a verb, adverb, or adjective
ADVERB
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shows the relationship of a noun of pronoun (the
object of the preposition) to another word
PREPOSITION

• I ran to the finish line.
• I ran from the vicious grizzly bear.
• I ran around the new track.
• I ran near the park.
• I ran behind the school.
• I ran through the crowd.

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shows the relationship of a noun of pronoun (the
object of the preposition) to another word
PREPOSITION

• Prepositional phrases
• I ran (to the finish line).
• I ran (from the vicious grizzly bear).
• I ran (around the new track).
• I ran (near the park).
• I ran (behind the school).
• I ran (through the crowd).

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shows the relationship of a noun of pronoun
(the object of the preposition) to another word
PREPOSITION

• Some Common Prepositions
• about beside in through
• above besides inside throughout
• across between into to
• after beyond like toward
• against but (meaning except) near under
• along by of underneath
• among concerning off until
• around down on unto
• at during out up
• before except outside upon
• behind for over with
• below from past within
• beneath since without

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shows the relationship of a noun of pronoun
(the object of the preposition) to another word
PREPOSITION

• Commonly Used Compound Prepositions
• according to because of in spite of
• along with by means of instead of
• apart from in addition to next to
• aside from in front of on account of
• as of in place of out of
• (As of today), Lucy has been accepted into three
  universities.
• He will apply at the end of the year (because of
  his scholarship).

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joins words, phrases, or clauses
CONJUCTION
A coordinating conjunction joins words and word
groups that are used in the same way We knew the
speaker, but we did not recognize his brother.
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joins words, phrases, or clauses
CONJUCTION
Correlative conjunction are pairs of
conjunctions that join words or word groups that
are used in the same way. Either Lenny or Jack
will bring chicken to the picnic.
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joins words, phrases, or clauses
CONJUCTION
A subordinating conjunction begins a subordinate
clause and connects it to an independent
clause. He laughed when he read the newspaper
article.
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expresses strong emotion
INTERJECTION
An interjection expresses emotion and has no
grammatical relation to the rest of the
sentence. Wow! We won the race!