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Understanding Minor Parts of Speech

Learn about pronouns, auxiliaries, conjunctions, determiners, qualifiers, prepositions, and isolates, their definitions, types, and functions. Master the use of these minor parts of speech in English language.

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Understanding Minor Parts of Speech

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  1. MINOR PARTS OF SPEECH

  2. Minor Parts of Speech • Pronouns • Auxiliaries • Conjunctions • Determiners • Qualifiers • Prepositions • Isolates

  3. PRONOUNS • Definition: a word that replaces a noun or noun phrase himself she there itself that her

  4. Types of Pronouns • Personal • Demonstrative • Reflexive • Intensive • Indefinite

  5. Person 1st Person Speaker 2nd Person Addressee 3rd Person Innocent bystander  Number Singular Plural Case Subjective (he) Functions as the subject Objective (him) Functions as the object Possessive (his) Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Personal Pronouns

  6. Demonstrative Pronouns • Definition: words that point out an object and are often accompanied with pointing gesture Plural these those Singular this that

  7. Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns • Definition: form ends in –self • Reflexive • Object • Ex. Hillary hurt herself. • Intensive • Modifier • Ex. Hillary bought herself a new car.

  8. Indefinite Pronouns “leftover class of pronouns” most everyone QUANTIFIERS each several all another everybody anybody none some

  9. AUXILAIRIES • “Helping Verbs: words that may join with the true verb in making up the complete verb of a sentence • Voice • Active • Single verb • Point of view of the doer • Ex. Jake called every member of the class. • Passive • Form of be (auxiliary) followed by past participle form of main verb • Point of view of the person effected by action • Ex. Every member of the class was called by Jake.

  10. COORDINATING Connect two elements of equal grammatical status Example and but or for nor so SUBORDINATING Connect structures of unequal grammatical status Connect clauses only CONJUNCTIONS

  11. DETERMINERS • Signifies that a noun is coming • Modifies a noun but cannot be made comparative or superlative • Precedes adjectives in a noun phrase • Words: the, a, an, our, this, some, every, first, all

  12. Words more most very quite rather somewhat each Definition: modifies an adjective or an adverb, either strengthening or weakening its meaning QUALIFERS

  13. PREPOSITIONS • Definition: a word that shows the relation of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence • Usually followed by a noun phrase • “Anything a plane can do to a cloud”  • Example: above, around, through, behind, with, to, at, during

  14. ISOLATES OUCH!! • Definition: Words that are not grammatically connected to other sentence parts and are typically separated with commas • Indicates the speaker’s attitude or feelings

  15. THAT’S ALL FOLKS! This concludes our study of the minor parts of speech. Congratulations!! You made it!

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