Magic Lens

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Magic Lens
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What is grammar?

• A way of thinking about language.

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What are the 4 levels of Analysis?

• Level 1 Parts of speech
• Level 2 Parts of a sentence
• Level 3 Phrases
• Level 4 Clauses

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How many parts of speech are there?

• 8

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What are they?Level 1

• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Conjunctions
• Prepositions
• Interjections

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What is a noun?

• The name of a person, place, thing, or idea

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What is a pronoun?

• A word that takes the place of a noun.

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Pronoun example

• Pronouns are quick little words we say, when we
  don t want to say a whole long noun.
• Instead of saying
• Robert Louis Stevenson (whew!)
• we can just say,
• he.

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What is a subject pronoun?

• Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject
  complements

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List the subject pronouns
he
you
I
she
they
we
it
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What is an object pronoun?

• A pronoun used as direct or indirect objects, and
  objects of prepositions

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List the object pronouns
her
me
you
him
it
us
them
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What is an adjective?
blue

• A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.

beautiful
big
cute
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What is an article?

• a
• an
• the

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VERBS

• A word that shows action, being, or links a
  subject to its subject complement

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Action Verbs

• Most verbs show ACTION.
• They say the noun or pronoun is DOING something.
• Roberto paddled.
• He paddled.

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Linking Verbs

• But not all verbs are action verbs.
• Some verbs are LINKING verbs.
• A linking verb is like IS.
• It says the subject IS something.
• Quackers IS a duck.
• IS links duck to Quackers.

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Adverbs

• Modifies a verb, adjective or other adverbs
• Usually ends in ly
• Describes how, how often, when and where.
• EXAMPLES quickly, happily, noisily

The baby cried noisily. How did the baby cry? It
cried noisily.
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Conjunction

• A word that joins two words or two groups of words

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Coordinating Conjunctions

• and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

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Correlative Conjunctions

• either. . . or
• neither. . . nor
• not only. . . but also

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Preposition

• Shows the relationship between its object and
  another word in the sentence

Prepositions show POSITION!
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In the tent.Under the tent.Around the
tent..Beside the tentOn the tentBeneath
the tent
Examples
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Interjection

• Shows emotion but has no grammatical function

Yikes!
Wow!
Hey!
Cool!
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Lets try it out..Label these sentences

• The brown dog is Bubba.

He went under the house.
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The brown dog is Bubba.

• adj adj noun verb linking
  noun

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He went under the house.

• pronoun verbaction prep adj noun

Now you write a sentence and have your neighbor
label it.
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Name the second level of Analysis?

• Level 1
• Level 2 Parts of a sentence
• Level 3
• Level 4

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How many parts of a sentence are there?

• 2

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What are they?Level 2

• Subject
• 2. Predicate

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The brown dog is Bubba.
Now add the 2nd Level of Analysis

• adj adj noun verb linking
  noun

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The brown dog is Bubba.
2nd Level of Analysis

• adj adj noun verb linking
  noun

Complete PREDICATE
Complete SUBJECT
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He went under the house.

• pronoun verbaction prep adj noun

Complete Subject
Complete Predicate
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Now try some on your own. Write 2 sentences and
have your neighbor diagram the 2 levels of
Analysis.