The Parts of Speech

1. The Parts of Speech A Review

2. Nouns • Nouns are words that name a person, place, object, or idea. • There are two types of nouns: • Common: Common nouns are unnamed. Words like teacher, city, religion, and state are common nouns • Proper: Proper nouns are named and must be capitalized. • Nouns are often preceded by the articles A, An, or The.

3. Nouns CommonProper teacher Instructor Ranne city Miami religion Buddhism state California

4. Pronouns A pronoun is used to replace a common or proper noun: • Theresa and Danny went to the concert together. • Theywent to the concert together. It wasn’t very good.

5. Pronouns There are three pronoun cases: • Subject Pronouns: I, you, we, they, he, she, and it • Object Pronouns: me, you, us, them, him, her, and it • Possessive Pronouns: my/mine, your/yours, our/ours, their/theirs, his, hers, its

6. Verbs Verbs tell us something important about the subject of the sentence: • Action verbs: What it is doing, has done, or will do • Linking verbs: What its state of being or condition is. These link the subject to a description of it. • Helping verbs: Join the main verb to form verbs of more than one word

7. Adjectives • Adjectives are used to describe nouns. • Adjectives answer the questions: Which? How many? What kind? • Adjectives may be directly in front of the noun they describe. • Adjectives may appear after a linking verb.

8. Adverbs • An adverb is used to describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. • Adverbs answer the questions: When? How often? To what degree? In what way? • Adverbs often, but not always, end in -ly

9. Prepositions • A preposition is a word that explains the relationship between a noun and other words in the sentence. • Prepositions are words that demonstrate time, location, direction, or position, such as in, on, at, for, from, to, with, etc. • There are MANY prepositions. • A preposition is always followed by a noun.

10. Interjections • Interjections are words that indicate emotion. • Interjections often begin a sentence. • Interjections can be followed by a comma or an exclamation point, depending on how strong an emotion is being demonstrated.

11. Identifying Interjections • Wow, that’s a beautiful car! • Oh! I forgot to bring my books. • Hey, Tara says class is cancelled.

12. Conjunctions • Conjunctions are connecting words. • Conjunctions join words or groups of words while explaining their relationship to each other • There are two kinds of conjunctions. • Coordinating • Subordinating

13. Conjunctions • Coordinating conjunctions join words, groups of words, or sentences of equal importance. • Use FANBOYS to remember the coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

14. Conjunctions • Subordinating conjunctions do not join single words, only groups of words or sentences. • The word groups they bring together are NOT of equal importance to each other. • There are MANY subordinating conjunctions. Some common ones include: although, since, while, because.

15. That’s it! • Your review of the parts of speech is complete.