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PARTS OF A SPEECH. What is this? It is an object What is an object? It is a Noun. How many parts of speech are there?. They are eight in number: 1. Noun 5. Adverb
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PARTS OF A SPEECH • What is this? • It is an object What is an object? It is a Noun
How many parts of speech are there? • They are eight in number: • 1. Noun 5. Adverb • 2. Adjectives 6. Preposition • 3. Pronoun 7. Conjunction • 4. Verb 8. Interjection
Each part has a work to do in a sentence • An Adjective describes the subject or the Noun. • This dress is pretty.
Let’s see what a pronoun does • Mary is reading. She will not play. • So a Pronoun • Is used instead • of a Noun
Come have a look at the action word in a sentence. • It is the Verb that speaks of some action by the Noun/Pronoun in a sentence. • We always play together.
How and where do we work, this is shown by an Adverb • That is an Adverb modifies a Verb in a sentence. • Tom ranfast.
We place a Preposition before a noun to relate it to another noun • The cat is sleeping under the table.
We can join two sentences by a Conjunction • John likes cakes. • John like chocolates. • John likes cakesandchocolates. • and
At times we need to express some strong feelings • Hurray ! We have won the match.