A Parts of Speech
A Parts of Speech
A Parts of Speech
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Disraeli, Endymion
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Purpose of presentation:
This presentation provides a very basic
introduction to the concept of parts of
speech in language. Actually, the study
of parts of speech can be quite
complicated and involved, but the
purpose of this presentation is to give the
students a working vocabulary and a way
to improve their grasp of grammar.
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In the English language . . .
There are nine parts of speech . . .
Nouns
Verbs It is important to
Pronouns understand that every word
Adjectives in a sentence has a job to
do, a role in the sentence.
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Articles
Prepositions
Interjections
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Noun:person, place,thing or
quality
Person: Mr. Garcia likes to eat spinach.
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Verb: shows action or state of
being
Action: He was running through the
forest.
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Pronoun: takes the place of a
noun
Guillermo was studying for the mid-term exam
when he realized that it was three o’clock in the
morning.
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Adjective: describes a noun
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Adverb: describes a verb
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Conjunctions: words that join
words, phrases or sentences
Manuel and Marisol loved to cook.
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Article: There are only three articles--the, a , an
(Actually, articles are adjectives and not a
different part of speech)
The bicycle was not only red but shiny.
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Identify each word in the
following sentence
The beautiful queen was walking slowly
on the cool lawn, and she was reading a
long book about knights and kings which
she enjoyed.
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The beautiful queen was walking slowly
article adjective noun verb verb adverb
she enjoyed.
Pronoun verb
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Assignment: Identify parts of
speech
1. The queen knew that she would be the only pretty
woman at the party.