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Magic Lens. What is grammar?. A way of thinking about language. What are the 4 levels of Analysis?. Level 1: Parts of speech Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Phrases Level 4: Clauses. How many parts of speech are there?. 8. What are they? Level 1. Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs
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What is grammar? A way of thinking about language.
What are the 4 levels of Analysis? Level 1: Parts of speech Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Phrases Level 4: Clauses
What are they?Level 1 Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions Interjections
What is a noun? The name of a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a pronoun? A word that takes the place of a noun.
Pronoun example Pronouns are quick little words we say, when we don ’t want to say a whole long noun. Instead of saying Robert Louis Stevenson (whew!) we can just say, he.
What is a subject pronoun? Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements
List the subject pronouns you he I she we they it
What is an object pronoun? A pronoun used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions
List the object pronouns her me you him it us them
What is an adjective? A word that modifies a noun or pronoun. blue beautiful big cute
What is an article? a an the
VERBS A word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement
Action Verbs • Most verbs show ACTION. • They say the noun or pronoun is DOING something. Roberto paddled. He paddled.
Linking Verbs But not all verbs are action verbs. Some verbs are LINKING verbs. A linking verb is like IS. It says the subject IS something. Quackers IS a duck. IS links duck to Quackers.
Adverbs Modifies a verb, adjective or other adverbs Usually ends in –ly Describes how, how often, when and where. EXAMPLES: quickly, happily, noisily The baby cried noisily. How did the baby cry? It cried noisily.
Conjunction A word that joins two words or two groups of words
Coordinating Conjunctions and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
Correlative Conjunctions either. . . or neither. . . nor not only. . . but also
Preposition Prepositions show POSITION! Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence
Examples In the tent….Under the tent….Around the tent…..Beside the tent……On the tent……Beneath the tent……
Interjection Yikes! Shows emotion but has no grammatical function Wow! Hey! Cool!
Let’s try it out…..Label these sentences The brown dog is Bubba. He went under the house.
The brown dog is Bubba. adj adj noun verb: linking noun
He went under the house. pronoun verb:action prep adj noun Now you write a sentence and have your neighbor label it.
Name the second level of Analysis? Level 1: Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Level 4:
What are they?Level 2 Subject 2. Predicate
Now add the 2nd Level of Analysis The brown dog is Bubba. adj adj noun verb: linking noun
2nd Level of Analysis The brown dog is Bubba. adj adj noun verb: linking noun Complete PREDICATE Complete SUBJECT
He went under the house. Complete Subject Complete Predicate pronoun verb:action prep adj noun
Now try some on your own. Write 2 sentences and have your neighbor diagram the2 levels of Analysis.