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Part of Speech

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Nouns
- Definition: A word or word group that is used to
name a person, place, thing, or an idea.

-Examples: Ms. Bohac, Ocotillo Wells, Rope, and


book.
Common Nouns vs. Proper
Nouns
Common Noun:
-Definition: A common noun names any one of a group or persons,
places, things, or ideas and is generally not capitalized.

-Examples: Book, school, marker, computer, phone, and backpack.

Proper Noun:
-Definition: A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing,
or idea, and is capitalized.

-Examples: Holt Handbook, West Valley High School, Mac


computer, IPhone, and Jansport backpack.
Pronouns
- Definition: A word that is used in place of one or
more nouns or pronouns.

-Examples: I, they, your, our, she, we, them, he, us,


him, his, their, them, and its.
He is playing
with the train.

They are playing all Is she sleeping in her bed?


together.
Personal Pronoun
-Definition: A personal pronoun refers to the one speaking is first
person, the one spoken to is second person, or the one being spoken
to is third person.

-First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours, our.


-Second person: you, yours, your.
-Third person: He, him his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.
Look, I am good
at reading!

They are You click


playing jump the icon to
rope. open the
Demonstrative and Interrogative
Pronouns
-Demonstrative Pronouns:
-Definition: A demonstrative pronoun is used to point our a specific
person, place, thing, or idea.
-Examples: This, That, These, Those.
I think this paper
is good enough.

-Interrogative Pronouns:
-Definition: An interrogative pronoun introduces a question.
-Examples: Who, whom, which, what, whose.

Hmmm, who is
in my class?
Adjective
-Definition: A word that is used to modify a noun or
a pronoun.

Green Die. Transparen Old Man


t ghost Haunted House
How to order adjectives in English
 In many languages, adjectives denoting attributes
usually occur in a specific order. Generally, the adjective
order in English is:
 Quantity or number
 Quality or opinion
 Size
 Age
 Shape
 Color
 Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin,
or material)
 Purpose or qualifier
Examples
 I am going to wear my ________ tie
to the wedding.
A) big cotton blue
B) blue big cotton
C) big blue cotton
Examples
 Please recycle those ________ bottles.
A) three water empty
B) three empty water
C) water empty three
Demonstrative Adjectives and
Articles
-Demonstrative Adjective:
-Definition: A demonstrative adjective is an adjective modifies a
noun or pronoun.
-Example:
-Did Jenifer draw this one or that one?
-Let’s take these sandwiches and those apples on our picnic.
-Articles:
-Definition: An Indefinite Article is when they refer to any member
of a group.
-Examples:
-A girl won.
-The one day sale is on Saturday.
Verb
-Definition: A verb that is used to express action
or a state of being.
-Example: Texting, jumping, push, doing.
Mom is
helping jack
do his
homework.

She is
exercising. The boys are
loading the
bus.
Helping Verbs
-Definition: Helping Verbs help the main verb
express action or a state of being.
-Examples: can, do, has, might, should, and could.

Hey! You should put the


toys in the box.

Please, can you


cut the cake
now?
Adverb
- Definition: A word that modifies a verb, an
adjective, or another word.
-Examples: There, up, here, down, tomorrow,
weekly, later, and early.
The girl is
going to ride
her bike up the
street.

It is going to rain
tomorrow and
weekly from now
on.
Preposition
-Definition: A word that shows the relationship of a
noun or a pronoun to another word.

-Examples: Aboard, below, from, since, about,


beneath, throughout, concerning, past, and
without. They are aboard the
This guy train.
is from
history.
Conjunction
-Definition: A word that joins word or words groups.

Decide whether to stay or go.


Coordinating Conjunctions:
-Examples: And, but, or nor, for yet so.
-Examples: You are supposed to walk on the street or the sidewalk.
Correlative Conjunctions:
-Examples: Both…and, Not only…but also, Whether…or.
-Example: Both Jim and Roberto were standing outside.
Interjection
-Definition: A word that expresses emotion.

-Definition: An interjection has no grammatical


relation to the rest of the sentence.

-Examples: Crap! Wow! Yuck! Yippee! Uh-oh! Well!


WEEE! I’m YUCK! This
Swinging! is nasty!

OWW! This Hurts.

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