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GOGO Concepts

GOGO Concepts. T.D. James-Moss, Instructor 2013-2014. A Flashback to… The Parts of Speech. Papa Vinc was a very good man, a very good man indeed. As the school’s janitor, he held everything—everything—together. Pronoun Adjective Preposition Adverb Verb Interjection Noun Conjunction.

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GOGO Concepts

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  1. GOGO Concepts T.D. James-Moss, Instructor 2013-2014

  2. A Flashback to… The Parts of Speech • Papa Vinc was a very good man, a very good man indeed. As the school’s janitor, he held everything—everything—together. • Pronoun • Adjective • Preposition • Adverb • Verb • Interjection • Noun • Conjunction

  3. Personal Pronouns • What is a pronoun? • A short word that takes the place of a noun. • There are a few, set pronouns in the English language. • There are many kinds of pronouns, but there is still a set number of each kind.

  4. Personal Pronouns • What is a personal pronoun? • A personal pronoun is a pronoun that can be used to describe or reference a person instead of using his or her or their names.

  5. Personal Pronouns

  6. The Nominative Personal Pronoun • “Nominative” is another word for “name.” • Nominative Personal Pronounsare used to replace the names of persons. • To remember this, “nominative personal pronoun” is just like saying “pronoun for name of a person.”

  7. The Nominative Personal Pronoun’s Function • The nominative personal pronoun can be a subject in a sentence. E.g. Have you met Brenda? She enjoys swimming on the weekends. E.g. I love this cake batter. It took only twelve minutes to bake.

  8. The Nominative Personal Pronoun’s Function • The nominative personal pronoun can also be used after a prepositional phrase where the subject is just being introduced. E.g. Although the odds were against her, she did not give up. E.g. Because of Billy’s illness, he stayed home from school.

  9. When to Use the Nominative/Subjective You use the nominative/subjective form when: • When the pronoun is functioning as a subject • When the pronoun has a subject complement • When you are doing a comparison using than or as • After any form of the verb “to be”

  10. When to Use the Objective You use the objective form when: • When using the pronoun as a direct object • When using the pronoun as an indirect object • When using the pronoun as the object of the preposition

  11. Focus: The Object of the Preposition • Object: In a sentence, the OBJECT receives the action. It is acted upon. • E.g. She hit me. “Me” is an objective pronoun. It means, that I was HIT. I received the action of the verb. • Verb: In a sentence, the verb is what is actually being performed. • E.g. She hitme. • The “hitting” was actually performed in that sentence. NOTE: Only a noun can be an object.

  12. Focus: The Object of the Preposition • Preposition: A part of speech where a defined number of words are used to show origin, location or order. aboutaboveacrossafteragainstaroundatbeforebehindbelowbeneathbesidebesidesbetweenbeyondbydownduringexceptforfromininsideintolikenearofoffonoutoutsideoversincethroughthroughouttilltotowardunderuntilupuponwithwithoutaccording tobecause ofby way ofin addition toin front ofin place ofin regard toin spite ofinstead ofon account ofout of

  13. Remember Your Prepositions: “Johnny in the Box” On Above Over Outside Outside of Around In Inside Inside of Johnny Through Across Under Below Beneath Out of Near Beside Next to *Specials (origin) “of” and “from”

  14. Remember Your Prepositions: “Johnny in the Races” Johnny FINISH Ahead In front of Before Behind After Between With “Competing” Against

  15. The Five Forms of the Verb • Why don’t we still say that the verb is any word that shows action? • Students began to assume that any word that ended in “–ing” was a verb. • That is NOT true. • For example: Reading is fundamental. --Reading in this sentence is an activity, which is a noun. Catherine dyed all of her clothes red with one piece of bleeding fabric. --Bleeding is an adjective describing the fabric.

  16. The 5 Forms of the Verb • Base : the verb w/out any transformation, no suffixes • Present: the verb w/ “-s” suffix added to show present tense • Past: the verb w/ “-ed” suffix added to show past tense • Perfect: the verb w/ “-ed” OR “-en” suffix added to show completion in the present or past • Progressive: the verb w/ “-ing” suffix added to show continuation in the present or past Base: Swim Present: Swims Past: Swam (irr.) Perfect: Swum Prog.: Swimming *Note: Swim is an irregular verb!

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