Parts of Speech in The English Language

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Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020
A presentation by:
JOHN PAUL C. VALLENTE
(English for Teachers)

Parts of Speech in the
English Language
The class adviser, standing among the students

lined up in front of the building, was apparently
holding her breath as a boy and a girl sing “The
Loyal Soldier.”
At the sound of the first bell, as the class was

getting ready to leave the room, the new teacher
said, “Your adviser is Mr. Arsenio L. Torres.
That’s my name. I am an Ilocano. Class
dismissed.”
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NOUNS
Definition
a naming word; used to identify people,

places, objects, ideas, and emotions
Let’s redefine it:

Everything that exists has a name or can
be named, and that name is a noun
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NOUNS
Classifications
• Proper • Uncountable/Mass
• Common • Collective
• Compound • Concrete
• Countable • Abstract
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Nobody noticed the teacher as he stood among

the members of the high school faculty that early
Monday morning after the flag ceremony.
And there was Belen. When people outside the

class asked, “Where’s Belen?” her classmates
would answer “On the honor roll” for she was
always there, a perpetual valedictorian in a class
of top-notchers.
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PRONOUNS
Definition
a pronoun is used in place of noun
a closed set of nominals whose

referents are established in context
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PRONOUNS
Classifications & Cases
• Possessive • Demonstrative
• Indefinite • Interrogative
• Relative • Reflexive
• Intensive
That afternoon the class gossiped about Mr.

Torres. Fred said, “Our new teacher is an
international figure. Look: he teaches English; he
has Chinese eyes; he speaks in an American
accent, and… and…”
When he taught the shorter poems in their

literature, he kept his books closed. He knew
them by heart. But he did not act as if he was
proud of this feat.
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ADJECTIVES
Definition
words that modify, describe,

quantify, or identify a noun,
noun phrase, or pronoun
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ADJECTIVES
Classifications
• Possessive • Demonstrative
• Descriptive • Interrogative
• Numeral
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For on Sunday, the news of Mr. Torres’ death

spread through the town, shocking everybody.
The students flocked to the hospital but were not
allowed to see the body. In front of the square
building of the high school, children loitered and
talked of Mr. Torres and his death.
Now they knew there were many days when he

attended class although the pain racked him.
Only when standing on his feet was physically
impossible did he absent himself from school.
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VERBS
Definition
words that describe an action or a

state of being
often change their form as different

endings are added to them to show a
verb’s relationship to time (verb tense)
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VERBS
Classifications
• Regular • Intransitive
• Irregular • Auxiliary
• Transitive
They came, the class of Section A, and at Fred’s

command, went down to the creek back of the
high school building and gathered flowers,
mostly white flowers . . .
There they worked silently till it was dark to see.

They talked only in whispers.
This program is especially dedicated to our

beloved teacher and adviser, who, as you all
know, passed away yesterday.
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ADVERBS
Definition
modifies a verb, an
adjective, or another
adverb
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ADVERBS
Classifications
• Manner
• Time
• Place
• Degree
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He was stranger in our midst when he came, and

a stranger when he left us.
While Fred was telling the story of their teacher,

his eyes were dimming with tears.
The song for the teacher was never finished

because, in the middle of the refrain, the two girls
began to sob.
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CONJUNCTIONS
Definition
a word that joins two parts

of a sentence
used to link words or parts of

sentences together
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CONJUNCTIONS
Classifications
• Coordinating
• Correlative
• Subordinating
The teacher went through a lot of pain but he

never showed it to his students. Somewhere over
the clouds, his spirit is felt guiding them from a
place where there is no pain, only peace.
And when the song ended, it was quiet

everywhere on the high school campus. Then the
bell rang like a church bell tolling, and the two
rows of boys and girls in white passed down the
corridor, ahead of the other classes, to Room 8
where no teacher awaited them.
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PREPOSITIONS
Definition
denote different relationships; in some

cases, prepositions can express more than
one relationship
express relationships between nouns,

between a verb and a noun, and
between an adjective and a noun
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PREPOSITIONS
Classifications
• Time • Instrument
• Place • Compound
• Direction • Double
• Agent • Participle
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12/14/19

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

(English for Teachers)

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

The class adviser, standing among the students

At the sound of the first bell, as the class was

a naming word; used to identify people,

Let’s redefine it:

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

Nobody noticed the teacher as he stood among

And there was Belen. When people outside the

a pronoun is used in place of noun

a closed set of nominals whose

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

That afternoon the class gossiped about Mr.

When he taught the shorter poems in their

words that modify, describe,

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

For on Sunday, the news of Mr. Torres’ death

Now they knew there were many days when he

words that describe an action or a

often change their form as different

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

They came, the class of Section A, and at Fred’s

There they worked silently till it was dark to see.

This program is especially dedicated to our

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

He was stranger in our midst when he came, and

While Fred was telling the story of their teacher,

The song for the teacher was never finished

a word that joins two parts

used to link words or parts of

Presentation 3_ENGL 01_JCV_First Sem AY2019-2020

The teacher went through a lot of pain but he

And when the song ended, it was quiet

denote different relationships; in some

express relationships between nouns,

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