This document provides notes on parts of speech from a daily grammar lesson, defining noun, pronoun, adverb, adjective, articles, preposition, conjunction, and verb. It defines each part of speech and provides an example sentence to illustrate its use. The notes also define common noun, proper noun, gerund, and participle and their grammatical functions.

1. Daily Grammar Practice Notes
Monday: Parts of Speech
Noun
n or N
A person, place, or thing
Pronoun
pron
Takes the place of a noun
Adverb
adv
Describes verbs and adjectives
and other adverbs
Adjective
adj
Describes nouns and
pronouns
Articles
art
Preposition
prep
Are a type of adjective
Shows relationships between
a noun or pronoun and
another word in the sentence
Conjunction
cc or sc
Joins words, phrases, and
clauses
Verb
av or lv or hv
Shows action or helps make a
statement
Gerund
ger
Participle
part
A verb that acts like a noun
Verb acting like an adjective
-Common noun: begins with a lower case letter
-Proper noun: gives a name of a specific person,
place, or thing
The dog is friendly.
-1st person: I, we
-2nd person: you
-3rd person: she, he, it, they
I brought the friendly dog home.
-normally end in –ly
-not is always an adverb
-tells how, when, where, to what extent
The friendly dog is quickly wagging his tail.
-tells which one, how many, what kind
The friendly dog barked.
-only 3 articles: a, an, the
The friendly dog barked.
Across, after, against, around, at, before, to, for,
by, near, under, until, etc.
Lots of times tells the location of something
The dog ran around the tree.
-Coordinating conjunctions:
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
-Subordinating conjunctions: start dependent
clauses. After, since, before, even though, until,
unless (NOTE: Many prepositions can be
subordinating clauses.)
Since I can’t have a dog in my apartment, I went
to the pet store and the humane society just to
look at them.
-Action: shows action
-Linking: links the subject to a word it is equal
to later in the sentence. Is, be, am, are, was,
were, become, feel, grow, look, smell, etc.
-Helping: “helps” a linking or helping verb do
the action
The dog barked.
-ends in –ing
Reading is fun.
-ends in –ing or –ed
-I have running shoes.