8 Parts of Speech

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8 Parts of Speech

• Noun
• Pronoun
• Adjective
• Verb

• Adverb
• Preposition
• Conjunction
• Interjection

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Noun

• Word that names a person, place, thing, or idea
• Types of nouns
• Proper noun
• Common noun
• Abstract noun
• Concrete noun
• Compound noun
• Collective noun

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Types of Nouns

• Proper Noun names a specific person, place, or
  thing
• Common Noun names any one of a class of people,
  places, or things
• Abstract Noun cannot be perceived by the
  senses thoughts or ideas
• Concrete Noun can be perceived by 1 or more of
  the senses

• Compound Noun noun that is made up of more than
  one word
• Collective Noun noun that names groups of
  people or things

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Pronoun

• Word that takes the place of a noun
• Antecedent nouns for which pronouns stand
• Types of Pronouns
• Personal pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Intensive pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Relative pronouns
• Interrogative pronouns
• Indefinite pronouns

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Types of Pronouns

• Personal pronouns
• Refer to the person speaking, the person spoken
  to, or the person, place, or thing spoken about
• Reflexive pronouns
• Ends in self or selves and indicates that
  someone or something performs an action to, for,
  or upon itself point back to a noun or pronoun
  earlier in the sentence
• Intensive pronouns
• Ends in self or selves and adds emphasis to a
  noun or pronoun in the same sentence
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Help specify one of many different people,
  places, or things
• Relative pronouns
• Begins a subordinate clause and connects it to
  another idea in the sentence
• That, which, who, whom, whose
• Interrogative pronouns
• Use to begin questions
• That, which, who, whom, whose
• Indefinite pronouns
• Refer to people, places, or things, often without
  specifying which ones

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Verb

• Indicates action (mental or visible action) or a
  state of being
• Linking verb verb that connects a word at or
  near the beginning of a sentence with a word at
  or near the end
• The most common linking verb is some form of be
• Helping verb verb that can be added to another
  verb to make a single verb phrase
• Verb phrase consists of main verb and
• 1 or more helping verbs

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Adjective

• Word used to describe a noun or pronoun
• Tells what kind, which one, how many, or how much
• Proper adjectives
• Compound adjectives
• Articles the adjectives a, an, the
• Indefinite a, an
• Definite the

articles
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Adverb

• Word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or
  another adverb
• Tells when, where, how / in what way, or to what
  extent

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Preposition

• Word that relates a noun or pronoun that appears
  with it to another word in the sentence shows a
  relationship
• Compound preposition
• Prepositional phrase group of words that begins
  with a preposition, ends with a noun or pronoun
  (object of preposition) and includes any
• modifiers

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Conjunction

• Word used to connect other words or groups of
  words
• 3 types
• Coordinating conjunction
• connects similar kinds of words or groups of
  words
• And, but, for, nor, or, so, yet
• Correlative conjunction
• Connects similar words or groups of words always
  appear in pairs
• Bothand, eitheror, neithernor, not onlybut
  also, whetheror
• Subordinating conjunction
• Connects two complete ideas by making one of the
  ideas subordinate (to place below another in rank
  or
• importance) to the other

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Interjection

• Word that expresses feeling or emotion and
  functions independently in a sentence

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School House Rock Videos

• Noun- http//teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_i
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• Adverb- http//teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video
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• Conjunction- http//teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?
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  n_Junction
• Verb- http//teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_i
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• Adjectives- http//teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?v
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  Adjectives
• Pronoun- http//teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?vide
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Congratulations!
You have now completed the 8 parts of speech !