The 8 Parts of Speech

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The 8 Parts of Speech
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What are the eight parts of speech?

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Verb
• Adverb
• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Interjection

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Nouns
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What Nouns Name

• Persons Mr. Johnson, mother, woman, Maria
• Places city, home, Texas, Canada
• Things house, ring, shoe, table, desk, month,
  light
• Ideas grief, democracy, courage, obedience

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Pronouns
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Pronouns

• Pronouns take the place of
• nouns to name persons, places, things, or
  ideas. 

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Adjectives
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Adjectives

• basic definition Adjectives modify NOUNS and
  PRONOUNS.   

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Articles Adjectives

• The, a, and an are called articles.
• Articles are always adjectives.
• They modify nouns and pronouns.

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Identify the Adjectives

• The two dark cats were walking on the fence. 
• The Article
• two answers how many?
• dark answers what kind?
• the article
• These southern countries have dry weather. 
• These answers which?
• southern answers what kind
• dry answers what kind

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Another example

• The chocolate one is his last cookie.
• The article
• chocolate What kind
• his Possessive Pronoun as adjanswers whose
• last answers how many

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Verbs
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Verbs

• A verb is a word that
• expresses action
• makes a statement
• links relationships.   

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Action Verbs

• Action verbs do just that. They demonstrate
  action. 
•               Examples Jim hit the ball.
•               Susie cooked spaghetti.
•               Joey drove the tractor.

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Linking Verbs

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• Linking verbs make statements OR they express
  links and relationships.
•      Examples, statements
• She is a good girl.
• He is a football player.  
• Examples, links/relationships
• She is my mother.
• That boy is my neighbor.

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Special List of Linking Verbs

• Linking verbs are on a special list. Here is that
  list
• Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, has
  been, have been, had been, will be, shall be, may
  be, would have been, should have been, can be,
  should be, would be (any combination that ENDS
  with be or been.) seem, become, taste, feel,
  smell, sound, look, appear, grow, remain, stay

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Examples

• What is the verb in each sentence? Is it an
  action or a linking verb?
• The tree grew to be quite tall.
•  The man grew weary.
•   She is looking at the picture.
•   She is looking paler by the minute.

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Adverbs
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Adverbs

• Adverbs modify
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• other adverbs.
• Adverbs answer these questions
•           WHERE?
•           WHEN?
•           HOW?
•           HOW OFTEN?
• TO WHAT EXTENT?

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Commonly Used Adverbs

• Commonly used Adverbs
• Here, there, away, up -- tell WHERE
• Now, then, later, soon, yesterday -- tell WHEN
• Easily, quietly, slowly, quickly -- tell HOW
• Never, always, often, seldom -- tell HOW OFTEN
• Very, almost, too, so, really -- tell TO WHAT
  EXTENT

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Examples

• 1. The two dark cats were walking slowly on the
  fence. 
• 2. Now it is time to trim the very long grass in
  the front yard. 
• 3. She is never too easily frightened away.

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Interjection
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Interjection

• An interjection is a word that expresses
• a strong feeling
• command.
• They have no grammatical relation to the rest of
  the sentence.

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Examples

• Wait! I am not finished.
• Great, I would love to go to the beach.

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Conjunction
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Conjunction

• Conjunctions are words that join words or groups
  of words

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Coordinating Conjunctions

• Coordinating conjunctions include for, and, nor,
  but , or, yet, so (FANBOYS)
• These conjunctions connect words, phrases, and
  clauses of equal value.
• Clauses of equal value are called INDEPENDENT
  CLAUSES and can stand on their own as separate
  sentences.

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Example

• John is running in this race, and I am carrying
  his water bottle.

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Prepositions
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Prepositions

• Prepositions show relationships between nouns or
  pronouns and other words in a sentence.

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Most Commonly Used Prepositions

• Aboard, about, above, across, after, against,
  along, among, around, at, before, behind, below,
  beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down,
  during, except, for, from, in, into, like, of,
  off, on, over, past, since, through, throughout,
  to, toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon,
  with, within, without 

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