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Welcome to English!

Welcome to English!. Please fill out your agenda. Volunteers pass out folders. Clear your desk off except for a pencil and your folder. . The 8 parts of speech. Nouns. A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing.

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Welcome to English!

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  1. Welcome to English! • Please fill out your agenda. • Volunteers pass out folders. • Clear your desk off except for a pencil and your folder. 

  2. The 8 parts of speech

  3. Nouns • A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing. • A noun that names only one person, place, or thing is called a singular noun. • A noun that names more than one person, a place, or a thing is called a plural noun.

  4. Person dentists (plural) sister (singular) Julio (singular) children (plural)

  5. Place New York (singular) zoo (singular) towns (plural) beaches (plural)

  6. Thing pears (plural) fan (singular) notebook (singular) buses (plural)

  7. adjective • An adjective is a word that describes a noun. An adjective can tell what kind or how many. • What Kind • We have a large dog. • Our dog has tiny, brown spots.

  8. adjectives How Many Our dog has five puppies. Many dogs love children.

  9. Verbs • A verb is a word that can show action. When a verb tells what people or things do it is called an action verb. run jump swim hitting throw danced wrote yell sing

  10. adverbs • An adverb is a word that describes a verb. • An adverb can tell how, when, or where. How I read books quickly. I read newspapers slowly. When I read books often. I always read the newspaper. Where I keep my books upstairs. I buy my newspaper there.

  11. conjunctions FANBOYS For And Nor But Or Yet So

  12. Prepositions • Show location, time, and movement Above after against along behind below between during off onto out of toward through upon by inside into by

  13. interjection "Interjection" is a big name for a little word. Interjections are short exclamations like Oh!, Um or Ah! They have no real grammatical value but we use them quite often, usually more in speaking than in writing. When interjections are inserted into a sentence, they have no grammatical connection to the sentence. An interjection is sometimes followed by an exclamation mark (!) when written.

  14. Common Interjections "Hello! How are you today?" "Hmm. I'm not so sure." "Oh! I've got a toothache." "Ouch! That hurts!" "Well, what did he say?" "Dear me! That's a surprise!"

  15. pronouns • Pronouns are words used to replace nouns.

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