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Parts of Speech

What are they?

Word classess classified to their functions


in sentences

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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
happyness
family
Geoffrey
Netherland
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Nouns
Nouns Example
Common noun book, computer, happiness, democracy

Proper noun Harry Truman, Eifel Tower, Tasikmalaya

Concrete noun Coffee, television, newspaper, rainfall

Abstract noun Weakness, humility, feeling

Compound noun Assembly, squad, team, highway

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Nouns

Nouns answer the questions:


“who?” and “what?”

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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

Verbs answer the question


“what is it doing?”

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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, smart,
hungry)
Articles compound
(a, an, the) (French fries, American
movie, horse shoes)
Adjectives

Demonstrative
Quantitative
(this, these, that,
(some, one, few) those)
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Adjectives

Adjectives answer the questions


"what kind?”; "which?"; and "how many?"

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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.

Adverb e.g. Absolutely


carefully
loyaly
well
hard
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Adverbs
Adverbs

time place frequency manner

Here, there, Often,


Yesterday, now,
somewhere, sometimes, Angrily, happily
then, tomorrow
inside usually

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Adverbs

Adverbs answer the questions :


“how?”; “when?”; “where?”; and “why?”

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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

Personal I, me, you, your, they, us, and it

Possessive My , your, our, her, his, their, its

Reflexive Myself, himself, herself, itself, yourself, yourselves, and


themselves
Demonstrative This, these, that, those

Relative Who, whom, which, and whose

Indefinite another, both, everyone, most, no one, and several


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A preposition is a word that
describes the position of an

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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
becouse
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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Thank you

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