Parts of Speech

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Parts of Speech Directions In your Grammar notes
packet, you MUST write down everything in RED,
and anything else that you feel you may need to
review for the exam.
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• Noun 5 Types
• Person, place, thing, and IDEA
• Common- begins with lower case letter. Ex. city
• Proper- begins with capital letter. Ex. Detroit
• Possessive-shows ownership Ex. Girls
• Abstract- names an idea, a feeling, a quality,
  or a characteristic. Ex. beauty
• Concrete- names a person, place, or thing that
  can be perceived by one or more senses. Ex. yogurt

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• Pronoun 6 Types
• takes the place of a noun
• Personal- refers to the one speaking
• 1st person pronouns having to do with me ex.
  I, me
• 2nd person pronouns having to do with you ex.
  You
• 3rd person pronouns having to do with everyone
  else ex. He, she, they, them
• Reflexive- refers to the subject of a sentence
  and functions as a complement/object of a
  preposition. (reflect back to self) ex. Myself,
  yourself, himself
• Relative- introduces a subordinate/dependent
  clause. Ex. That, which, who, these, those

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• Pronoun (contd)
• Interrogative- introduces a questions. Ex. Who,
  whom, which, what, whose
• Demonstrative- Used to point out or show a
  specific person, place, thing, or idea. Ex. This,
  that, these, those
• Indefinite- NOT definite! refers to one or more
  persons, places, ideas, or things that may or may
  not be specifically named. Ex. All, another,
  everything, neither, nobody, such, anyone, more

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• Adjective
• A word that modifies (describes) a noun or
  pronoun. Ex. I have a green pen.
• Tells which one? How many? What kind?
• Articles a, an, the
• Proper adjective proper noun used as an
  adjective (American flag)

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• Verb 3 Types
• shows action or help to make a statement
• Action-shows action. Ex. She wrote a note.
• Linking- links 2 words together
• Can be linking is, be, am, are, was, were, been,
  being, appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain,
  seem, smell, sound, stay, taste
• (see notes- you dont need to these write down!)
• Ex. English is fun. (Englishfun) The game is on
  Saturday. (action)
• The flower smells pretty. (flowerpretty) The dog
  smells the flower. (action)

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• Verb (contd)
• Helping-helps an action verb or linking verb
• Can be helping is, be, am, are, was, were, been,
  being, will, would, can, could, shall, should,
  may, might, must, have, has, had, do does, did,
  ought
• (see notes-dont need to write down!)
• Ex. We have been taking notes all day. (Taking is
  action.)
• Ex. She will be could without a jacket. (Be is
  linking.)

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• Adverb
• modifies (describes) adjectives (really cute),
  verbs (extremely fast), and other adverbs (very
  easily)
• Tells how? When? Where? To what extent?
• The word not is always an adverb!!!!

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• Preposition
• Shows relationship between a noun or pronoun and
  some other word in the sentence.
• Ex. Across, after, against, around, at, before,
  below, between, by, during, except, for, from,
  in, of, off, on, over, since, through, to, under,
  until, with, according to, because of, instead
  of, etc.
• Ex. We went to school. We went up the stairs.

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• Conjunction
• Joins words, phrases, and clauses
• 3 Types
• Coordinating
• FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
• Subordinating
• Start dependent clauses (and therefore must be
  followed by subject and verb)
• After, since, before, while, because, although,
  so that, if, when, whenever, as, even, though,
  until, unless, as if, etc.
• Correlative
• Not only/but also, neither/nor, either/or,
  both/and.

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• Interjection
• words that express emotions
• Example Wow! Yikes! Hey!

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exam! Copies of these powerpoints can be found
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