Parts of Speech

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Parts of Speech

• Everything you need to know

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ADJECTIVES

• Modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing,
  identifying or quantifying words.
• Usually proceeds the noun or pronoun it modifies
• EXAMPLES
• The small boat foundered on the wine dark sea.
• The back room was filled with large, yellow rain
  boots.
• Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative,
  indefinite

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NOUNS

• a word used to name a person, animal, place,
  thing, and abstract idea
• EXAMPLES
• Late last year our neighbors bought a goat.
• Portia White was an opera singer.
• Proper v. Common Nouns
• Noun Gender
• Possessive Nouns
• http//pimsleur.english-test.net/vocabularies/spel
  ling-and-vocabulary-free-noun-exercises.html

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PRONOUNS

• Can replace a noun or another pronoun
• Personal, subjective, objective, possessive,
  demonstrative, interrogative, relative,
  indefinite
• White, House, Mr. Miller, Michael Jordan, Mickey
  Mouse

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ADVERB

• can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb,
  a phrase, or a clause
• indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree
  and answers questions such as "how," "when,"
  "where," "how much
• Usually ends in an -ly
• EXAMPLES
• The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes.
  
• We urged him to dial the number more
  expeditiously

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VERBS

• Most important part of a sentence
• Asserts something about the subject of the
  sentence and express actions, events, or states
  of being
• Action verb v. linking verb
• Jumping, playing, skipping, chewing
• EXAMPLES
• Dracula bites his victims on the neck.
• http//www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives
  -adverbs/adjectives/exercises?02