3. PARTS OF SPEECH
The 8 “building blocks” of
the English language…
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4. NOUN
1. Person, place, thing or
idea: “what or who”
2. Nouns are concrete like
dogs and cars.
3. Or abstract like
anger, liberty and
friendship.
4. Common like
desks, puppies and
mother.
5. Or proper like
Juanita, Radha, or India.
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5. EXAMPLES
• Radha is a pro-golfer
• The dog was very sad.
• The bakery has fresh cakes.
• Love is a beautiful thing.
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6. PRONOUN
• A pronoun is a short word that takes the place of a Noun.
Pronouns can be:
Subjects : he or she
Objects: him or her
Possessive: his or hers
Indefinite: nobody or all
Demonstrative: this or those
Important: Always be sure the pronoun has a clear referent!
(If you use “they,” be sure the reader knows who “they” are.)
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7. EXAMPLES
Sita and I went to see movie.
My uncle, who is an engineer, works at Sony.
Whose book is on our desk?
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8. VERB
A verb is the action of the sentence. It shows what someone or
something is doing.
run
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9. EXAMPLES
• Ram runs everyday.
• Joe is painting the kitchen walls.
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10. ADVERB
An adverb is a descriptive
word that tells more about a
verb, an adjective or another
adverb.
• Adverbs tell how, where
and when .
“The most commonly used
adverb in English is “very.”
• Many adverbs end in “ly”:
quickly, carefully, &
slowly…
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11. EXAMPLES
He plays the flute beautifully.(after the object)
He swims well, (after the main verb)
He ate the chocolate cake greedily.
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12. ADJECTIVE
• Adjectives are descriptive
words used to “modify” or tell
more about Nouns
• And pronouns…
Presenting a blue
car, a red car and a
light brown car…
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• Without colorful and precise
adjectives, language would be
pretty blah!
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13. EXAMPLES
• They live in a beautiful house.
• He writes meaningless letters.
• Ben is an adorable baby.
• This glass is breakable.
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14. PREPOSITION
A preposition shows a position
relationship between two or more
nouns or pronouns.
These are short words (on, in, to)
that usually stand in front of nouns
(sometimes also in front of gerund
verbs).
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15. EXAMPLES
The relationship can be spatial:
• “She walked through the door into the room.”
Or in time, as in the sentence below:
• “After the track meet, he was very tired.”
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16. CONJUNCTION
A conjunction is a word that
joins words or word groups
together. Some examples
conjunctions are:
and, but, or, nor, although, yet,
so, either, and also.
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17. EXAMPLES
We ate pizza and drank coke for dinner.
He was lazy, therefore, e failed.
I played cards for awhile, but then I played chess.
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18. INTERJECTION
• An interjection is a word
(or words) of shock or
surprise.
• It is usually used by itself
and is followed by an
exclamation point.
Examples are:
Wow!, Cool!, ouch, wow, uh
oh, oh no, gosh, shhhh
Awesome! and so on…
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19. EXAMPLES
Wow! That is a fine looking car.
Hurray! It is a snow day and school is cancelled.
Oh! I can’t believe how nice you look.
Woops, I dropped the milk and it spilled.
It is so exciting, my goodness, I just can’t believe it.
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