PARTS OF SPEECH

1. PARTS OF SPEECH ENG 101/ 2.19.14

2. 8 parts • Nouns • Pronouns • Verbs • Adjectives • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections

3. Nouns • Person, place, thing, or concept • Proper • Possessive • Singular • Plural • Concrete • Abstract

4. Pronouns • Personal • I, me you, she, her, he, him, it, we, us, you, they, them • Possessive • My, mine, your, yours, her, hers, his, its, our, ours, your, yours, their, theirs • Intensive and reflexive • Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves • Relative • Who, whom, whose, which, that • Interrogative • Who, whom, whose, which, that • Demonstrative • This, that, these, those • Indefinite • All, another, each, anybody, anyone, somebody, nobody, everybody, etc. • Reciprocal • Each other, one another

5. Verbs • Helping verbs • Main verbs

6. Subordinate Word Groups

7. Prepositional phrases • Begin with a preposition • At, by, for, from, in, of, to, with • Usually end with a noun or pronoun • Answer questions of Which one? What kind? When? Where? Why? How? To what degree? • Can you end a sentence with a preposition?

8. Verbals • Verb form that does not act as the verb of a clause • Broken promises cannot be fixed. • Constant complaining becomes wearisome. • I cannot wait to celebrate.

9. Words that introduce subordinate clauses • See chart p. 325