Parts of Speech

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Parts of Speech

• Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives

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Noun

• A person, place, thing or idea.
• Types of nouns
• Collective, common, proper, abstract, concrete,
  and compound.

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Common Noun

• Names any one of a group of persons, places, or
  things. Generally NOT capitalized.

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Proper Noun

• Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea
  and begins with a capital letter.

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Collective, Concrete, and Abstract Nouns

• Collective noun- names a group (audience, class,
  team, family)
• Concrete noun- names a person, place, or thing
  that CAN be perceived by one or more of the
  senses.
• Abstract Noun- names an idea, a feeling, a
  quality or a characteristic.

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Compound Noun

• A single noun made up of more than one word.

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Pronouns

• Pronoun- a word that is used in place of one or
  more nouns or pronouns.
• Personal Pronouns- refers to the one speaking,
  the one being spoken to, or the one being spoken
  about (I, me, you, them, she, he, they, etc.)

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Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

• Reflexive pronoun- refers to the subject and is
  NECESSARY to the meaning of the sentence.
• Intensive pronoun- emphasizes a noun or another
  pronoun and is unnecessary to the meaning of the
  sentence.
• END IN SELF or SELVES

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Demonstrative Pronouns

• A demonstrative pronoun points out a person,
  place, an idea.
• THIS, THAT, THESE, or THOSE

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Interrogative Pronouns

• An interrogative pronoun introduces a question,
  and it will be at the BEGINNING of the question.
• WHAT, WHICH, WHO, WHOM, or WHOSE

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Indefinite Pronoun

• Refers to a person, a place, a thing, or and idea
  that may or may not be specifically names.
• Common indefinite pronouns
• All, any, some, none, more, both, somebody,
  nobody, most, much, few, everything

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Relative Pronoun

• A relative pronoun introduces a subordinate
  clause.
• A subordinate clause does not express a complete
  thought and it cannot stand by itself as a
  complete thought.
• THAT, WHICH, WHO, WHOM, WHOSE

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Adjectives

• An adjective is a word that is used to modify a
  noun or a pronoun.
• To modify means to DESCRIBE.
• Adjectives answer the following questions
• What kind
• Which one
• How much
• How many

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Articles (article adjectives)

• A, an, and the.
• A and an are indefinite articles because they
  refer to any member of a general group.
• The is a definite article because it refers to
  someone or something in particular.

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Demonstrative Adjectives

• Demonstrative adjectives point out a specific
  noun or nouns.
• THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE
• These words MUST be followed by a NOUN or
  PRONOUN to be considered an adjective.
  Otherwise, the word is being used as a pronoun.

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Proper Adjectives

• A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun.
  Proper adjectives, like proper nouns, are
  capitalized.

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Determining Parts of Speech

• To determine a part of speech, you MUST look at
  how it is used in the sentence, not just what you
  think it is. Example
• My favorite color is blue. (blue is a noun)
• I love my blue house. (blue is an adjective)