The Eight Parts of Speech

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The Eight Parts of Speech

• For Mrs. Evanss Writing Composition Class

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Nouns

• A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
• Ex. Person- girl
• Ex. Place- home
• Ex. Thing- dog
• Ex. Idea- hatred

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Types of Nouns

• Singular- a noun that is one in number. Example
  cat
• Plural- a noun that is more than one. Example
  cats
• Common- a noun that does not represent a
  particular person, place, thing, or idea.
  Example school
• Proper- a noun that represents a particular
  person, place, thing, or idea. Example North
  Laurel High School (starts with caps.)

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Rest of the Noun Types

• Abstract This is a noun that is an idea noun.
  It cannot be seen or touched. Example justice
• Concrete This is a noun that can be seen or
  touched. Example house
• Compound This is two or more nouns put together
  to make one word. Example football
• Adverbal This is a noun that answers the same
  questions an adverb answers however, it acts as
  a noun. Example yesterday
• Collective This is a noun that represents a
  group. It is singular usually in nature.
  Example herd

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Verb (Also Predicate)

• A verb is a word that shows action or a state of
  being.
• Example of action jump
• Example of being is

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Types of Verbs

• Action verb Anything you can do. Example talk
• Being verb (also known as copular and or
  linking) This verb is any form of the verb be.
  Is, am, was, were, will be, are (Be careful
  because sometimes these can be helping verbs
  also.
• Helping verb This is a verb that comes before
  the main verb and lets you know when a verb
  occurred. Example have written ( the helping
  verb is have)

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Rest of Types of Verbs

• Main verb This is the verb that lets you know
  what is happening in the sentence.
• Example I am jumping on the trampoline.
  (Jumping is the main verb, and am is the helping
  verb letting me know when.)
• Transitive verb This is an action verb that has
  an object. Example I kicked the ball. The
  object is ball, and the action is kicked.
• Intransitive verb This is an action verb without
  an object. Example I jumped over the fence.

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Interjection

• An interjection is a word that shows excitement
  or surprise.
• If it is used at the beginning of the sentence,
  it is followed by a comma or an exclamation
  point.
• Example Ouch, you hurt my toe

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Adjective

• An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a
  pronoun.
• It answers which one- that girl, what kind-
  pretty girl, how many- several girls
• They are considered to be descriptors.
• Dont forget that the words a, an, and the are
  also considered adjectives.

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Types of Adjectives

• Articles A, an, the. A and an are both
  nonspecific, and the is considered the specific
  article.
• Common These are the regular adjectives used to
  describe. Example The ugly boy bit me.
• Proper This type of adjective is made from a
  proper noun. Example Mexico becomes Mexican boy
• Demonstrative These are this, that, these, and
  those. This and these are specific, and that and
  those are non specific and far away.

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Adverbs

• Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other
  adverbs.
• These are often considered to be intensifiers.
• Usually end in ly.
• Answer where? There when? Lately why? Because,
  and to what extent? Very, too

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Prepositions

• Prepositions show a relationship to other words
  in the sentence.
• Think about the mouse and the log.
• Examples in, under, at, on, beside
• Some weird ones with, of, for

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Conjunctions

• Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses.
• In a series of three, you must use commas before
  the conjunctions.
• Example We ate apples, bananas, and oranges.

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Types of Conjunctions

• Coordinating These are the common conjunctions
  used to join words, phrases, or clauses. (They
  are and, or, nor, for, but, yet.)
• Correlative These are words that are used to
  smoothly join two closely related sentences.
  Example They studied for their test therefore,
  they did well. A semi colon goes before them,
  and a comma follows.

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Rest of the types of Conjunctions

• Subordinating conjunctions Begin dependent
  adverbial clauses, and the clause should be
  followed by a comma if the subordinating
  conjunction is at the beginning of the sentence.
  Example When you talk, you miss out on
  instruction.

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Pronoun

• A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
• They have number, gender, and case.
• Number means they are singular or plural.
• Gender means they can be feminine (she,)
  masculine (he,) or neuter (it.)
• Case nominative (subject,)-he objective
  (object,)-him and possessive (shows
  possession.)-his

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Types of Pronoun

• Relative- This type of pronoun begins a dependent
  adjective clause. They are who, whom, whose,
  which, and that. Never use that to refer to
  people. Example He is the boy who stole the
  money.
• Reflexive This pronoun ends in self or selves.
  Example themselves Remember there is no such
  word as theirself or hisself

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Indefinite Pronouns

• Indefinite- These can be singular, plural, or
  both depending on how they are used in the
  sentence.
• Plural Both, few, many, several.
• Singular each, either, neither, one, anyone,
  anybody, no one, nobody, someone, somebody,
  everyone, and everybody.
• Singular or plural depending on how used all,
  any, none, some, and most.