Meeting 2 - PARTS OF SPEECH
Meeting 2 - PARTS OF SPEECH
Meeting 2 - PARTS OF SPEECH
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Parts of speech
▣ Noun ▣ Preposition
▣ Verb ▣ Conjunction
▣ Adjective ▣ Interjection
▣ Adverb ▣ Determiners*
▣ Pronoun
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a name of a person, place,
things, or idea
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Noun
e.g. dog
mountain
happiness
family
Geoffrey
Netherland
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Nouns
Nouns Example
Common noun book, computer, happiness, democracy
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Nouns
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A verb shows an action or a
state of being
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Verb
e.g. work
jump
Study
enjoy
like
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Verbs
Action Verbs
(speak, study, think,
remember)
Main verbs
Linking Verbs
(am, is, are, was, were,
Verbs taste, sound, smell)
Auxiliaries
Helping verbs (am, is, are, was, were, do,
does, did)
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Verbs
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Adjectives describe or
modify nouns.
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Adjective
e.g. absolute
academic
dangerous
smart
easy
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Adjectives
Descriptive
(beautiful, compound
Articles smart, hungry)
(French fries,
(a, an, the) American movie,
horse shoes)
Adjectives Demonstrative
Quantitative
(some, one, few) (this, these,
that, those)
Possessive
(my, your, his, her,
our, their, its)
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Adjectives
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Adverb describes a verb, an
adjective, or another adverb.
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Adverbs usually end in -ly, but not
always.
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Adverbs
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▪ A pronoun is a word used in
place of a noun or another
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pronoun.
▪ The noun is called the
antecedent.
Pronoun
e.g. I
you
ours
her
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Pronouns
Pronouns Examples
‘’
object.
e.g. In
Preposition on
under
over
beside
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Conjunctions connect words or
groups of words and show how
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the words are related.
e.g. and
Conjunction
but
because
if
since
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Conjunctions
kinds of conjunctions:
❑ coordinating conjunctions,
❑ correlative conjunctions, and
❑ subordinating conjunctions
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Interjections are words that are
used to express an emotion like
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surprise or shock or
disappointment.
Interjection e.g. ah
ouch
o my god!
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Exercise: Find out the words that belong to
parts of speech in the brackets.
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