Parts of Speech Super-Fast Review Part 2

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Parts of Speech Super-Fast Review Part 2

• (Verbs and Prepositions)
• August 22-23
• Basham

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VerbsA verb expresses an

• action,
• a condition, or
• a state of being.

• The two main types of verbs are
• action verbs and
• linking verbs

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Action Verbs

• An action verb expresses action. The action may
  be physical or mental.
• The student _______________ into class.
  (physical)
• The student _______________ in class. (mental)

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Linking Verbs

• A linking verb links the subject of a sentence to
  some word in the predicate.
• There are two groups of linking verbs forms of
  to be, and verbs that express condition.

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Linking Verbs

• Verbs of Condition
• Look, smell, feel, sound, taste, grow, appear,
  become, seem, remain

• Forms of To Be
• Am, is, are, was, were, been, being

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Linking Verbs

• The students __________ happy in class (form of
  to be)
• The students _____________ bored after lunch
  (verb of condition)

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AUXILIARY Verbs

• Auxiliary verbs, also called helping verbs, are
  combined with verbs to form verb phrases.

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Common Auxiliary Verbs
Forms of To Be Might Must
Have Shall Should
Can Could May
Has Will Would
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Prepositions

• A preposition shows the relationship between a
  noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence.
• The most common relationships expressed are
  location and condition.

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30 most commonly used Prepositions

• about above across after against around at before
  behind below beside between by down for from in
  inside into of off on onto over through to under
  until with without

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Prepositions

• Prepositions very rarely stand alone, but are
  most often followed by a Prepositional Phrase.

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Prepositional Phrases

• A Prepositional Phrase consists of a preposition,
  the object of the preposition, and any modifiers
  of the object found between. The object of a
  preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows
  the preposition.

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Why it matters

• How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
• Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
• Creep into our ears soft stillness and the
  night
• Becomes the touches of sweet harmony.

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Circle the preposition and underline the
prepositional phrase.

• The squirrel ran around the tree.
• The squirrel ran through the tree.
• Jazz is a modern form of music.
• Many musical styles contributed to its birth.