Parts of Speech
things you should know about the parts of speech.
Terms
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- nouns
- person,place,thing,or idea
- adverb answering when? example
- We can leave NOW.
- compound
- two or more words used as a single word
- adverbs answer
- where,when,how,to what extent
- intransitive verb
- action verb that expresses an action without passing the action from a subject to an object ex: We RODE in silence.
- concrete noun
- can be percieved by the senses
- The eight parts of speech
- nouns,pronouns,adjectives,verbs,adverbs,prepositions,conjunctions,and interjections
- adverb answering how? example
- The alarm rang WILDLY.
- reflexive/intensive
- myself,yourself,himself,itself,herself
- interrogative
- who?,whose?,what?,whom?,which?
- indefinite
- all,several,any,most,every
- common noun
- non-specific noun that names any person,place,thing,or idea
- proper noun
- specific noun
- Interjections
- word used to express emotion and that has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence (Hooray,oh,wow)
- personal
- he,she,it,they,I,we,their,our
- adverb answering where? example
- Let's go INSIDE.
- article
- commonly used adjective (a,an,the)
- correlative conjunction
- connect items of the same kind in pairs (both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also,whether...or)
- transitive verb
- action verb that expresses an action directed toward a person or thing named in the sentences ex: Jan SERVED the bread.
- advers often end in
- -ly
- preposition example
- we hung the picture BESIDE the sofa.(sofa is object of preposition)
- antecedent
- noun that the pronoun takes the place of
- nouns can be used as adjectives
- ex: BLUE water
- verbs
- a word used to express an action or state of being
- abstract noun
- names idea, feeling,quality,or characteristic
- adjectives
- word used to modify a noun of pronoun
- indefinite article
- a,an
- prepositions
- word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence
- pronouns
- word used in the place of a noun
- adverb answering to what extent? example
- She HARDLY noticed.
- definite article
- the
- coordinating conjunctions
- connect items of the same kind (and,but,for,nor,or,so,yet)
- pronouns can be used as adjectives
- ex: Use THIS brush.
- linking verb
- serves as a link between two words ex: The writer IS talented.
- adjectives tell
- what kind? how many? which one?
- demonstrative
- this,that,these,those
- conjunctions
- words used to join words or groups of words
- relative
- wh,whom,whose,which,that
- verb phrases
- a main verb proceded by at least one helping verb ex: Sandra IS LEAVING
- adverbs
- word used to modify a verb,adjective, or another adverb
- adverbs are located
- before or after word the modify