Parts of Speech Review

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Parts of Speech Review

• In your texts pages 6-29
• (Youll learn to love these PowerPoints.)

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Nouns (if you dont know most of this already,
Im going to cry.)

• Types of Nouns
• Person students, teacher, Mr. Hepworth,
  Shakespeare
• Place school, Iowa, home
• Thing yard stick, belt, referral
• Idea sadness, love, surprise

• More Types of Nouns
• Common bridge, river
• Proper Tim, Waterford
• Concrete shoe, car
• Abstract truth, love, beauty
• Singular detention
• Plural - detentions

Pet peeve alert! I hate the fact that texting
seems to have made some of you forget how to
capitalize your own names!
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Personal Pronouns(Pay attention here, this is
important)

• A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun or
  another pronoun
• An antecedent is the word that a pronoun replaces
• Ex. Tim forgot his book in his locker and so
• was given 10 Saturday detentions.
• Antecedent Pronoun

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Personal Pronouns
Singular Plural
First Person I, me (my, mine) we, us (our, ours)
Second Person you (your, yours) you (your, yours)
Third Person he, him, she, her, it (his, her, hers, its) they, them (their, theirs)
Big Tip! When you are writing papers in this
class you may NOT use first or second person
personal pronouns!
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Other Kinds of Pronouns

• Reflexive Pronouns reflects the subject of the
  sentence there will always be at least one word
  between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent.
• Ex. Luke Skywalker made himself a lightsaber.
• Intensive Pronoun emphasizes a noun or pronoun
  in the same sentence almost always comes right
  after its antecedent.
• Ex. Luke Skywalker himself blew up the Death
  Star.
• Reflexive and intensive pronouns are formed by
  adding self or selves to personal pronouns.

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Other Kinds of Pronouns

• Demonstrative Pronouns point out specific
  things this, these, that, and those
• Ex. I prefer my chair to that over there.
• Indefinite Pronouns refer to things not
  specifically identified usually dont have
  antecedents another, nothing, on, both, all,
  any, more, etc.
• Ex. Everyone loves Star Wars!

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Other Kinds of Pronouns

• Interrogative Pronoun introduces a question
  who, whom, whose, which, what
• Ex. Who is Luke Skywalker?
• Relative Pronoun introduces a noun or adjective
  clause who, whom, whose, which, that
• Ex. Luke Skywalker, who is the coolest person
  ever, flies in space.

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Verbs

• Expresses an action, a condition, or a state of
  being.
• Action Verb expresses anaction!
• Transitive verb takes an object
• Object noun that receives the action
• Ex. Timmy kicked the cat.
• The cat is the object because it is the thing
  being kicked.
• In transitive verb does not take an object.
• Ex. Mr. Hepworth snores at night.

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Verbs (This is the really important one that no
one seems to know.)

• Linking Verbs a verb that links the subject to a
  word in the predicate.
• Two forms of linking verbs
• Forms of to be
• is, am, are, was, were, been, being
• Ex. Star Wars is the coolest movie ever. Period.
• Verbs that express condition
• look, smell, feel, sound, taste, seem, etc.
• Ex. Darth Vader looks scary.

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Verbs

• Helping Verbs (or Auxiliary Verbs) and Verb
  Phrases
• Helping verbs combine with other verbs to create
  verb phrases
• Verb phrases express a tense
• Ex. I will be getting a lightsaber for Christmas
  this year.

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Adjectives

• An adjective modifies the meaning of a noun or
  pronoun.
• Ex. Green lightsabers, five lightsabers, etc.
• Articles a, an, the
• Proper adjectives formed from proper nouns,
  capitalized
• Shakespearean, Jamaican, etc.

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Adverbs

• An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another
  adverb.
• Often (but not always) ends in ly.
• Ex. Mike scrambled quickly from the bee hive.
• Ex. He was extremely upset.
• He had knocked down the hive quite accidentally.

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Prepositions

• Memorize em! There are many morememorize em
  all! (pg 23 in your text)

About Before Down Of To
Above Behind From On Under
After Beside In Out Up
Along Between Into Over Upon
As By Like Since With
At Despite Near Through With
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Prepositional Phrases

• A preposition shows the relationship between a
  noun and another word in the sentence.
• A prepositional phrase starts with the
  preposition and ends with the next noun which is
  called the object of the preposition.Ex. Luke
  Skywalker is the coolest person in the galaxy.
• object of the preposition preposition

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Conjunctions

• A conjunction connect words together.
• Coordinating conjunction FANBOYS for, and, nor,
  but, or, yet, so memorize it!
• Correlative Conjunctions Ex. bothand,
  neithernor, eitheror, not onlybut also.
• There are two more types of conjunctions, but
  well get to those later in the year.

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Interjections

• An interjection is a word or phrase the expresses
  a feeling.
• A strong interjection (Stop!) is followed by an
  exclamation point.
• A mild interjections (Oh,) is followed by a
  comma.
• Ex. Wow! This was the most exciting slide ever!
• Ex. Um, not really.