Parts Of Speech Adverb Prepositions Nouns

1. Greeshma K. S.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
St. Mary’s College Thrissur
PARTS OF SPEECH

2. PART
OF
SPEECH
NOUN
PRONOUN
ADJECTIVE
VERBAD
VERB
PREPOSITION
CONJUNCTION
INTERJECTION
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3. NOUN
COMMON
NOUNS
PROPER
NOUNS
COLLECTIVE
NOUNS
COUNTABLE
NOUNS
UNCOUNTABLE
NOUNS
ABSTRACT
NOUNS
MATERIA
NOUNS
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4.  Common Noun :- they refer is general names of people, animals,
places or things.
 Proper Noun:- they refer to the particular name of of a person
animal place.
 Collective noun:- They refer to the name of a group of people,
animals, eg:- Troops, staff, burch, shoal
 Countable Noun : - They refer to the things that can be counted per
Car, spoon etc.
 Uncountable Nouns:- things that cannot be counted eg:- Milk,
waler, butter etc.
 Abstract Noun:- to an idea, a feeling or a quality cannot be seem or
touched. Eg:- Happiness, decision, Love, Courage, Strong the etc.
 Material Nouns :- Names of substances from which concrete things
are made. Eg:- cement, gold, wool, cotton, silver etc.
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5. PRONOUNS
PERSONAL
DEMONSTRA
TIVE
INTERROGA
TIVE
POSSESTIVE REFLEXIVE EMPHATIC RELATIVE
DISTRIBU
TIVE
INDEFINITE
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6.  Personal Pronouns :- Refer to the speaker, the person spoke, I,
he, she, it, they, we, you
 Demonstrative:- Used to point to specific within a sentence eg:-
This, that, those, there
 Interrogative :- Used to ask question what, who, which, whom,
whose
 Possessive :- Show possession His, hers, its, ours, my mine, you
 Reflexive :- when the object of a sentence refers back to the
subject. Myself, yourself, himself, itself, oneself,
 Empholic :- emphasis on the does of the action.
 Reflective :- used to connect a clause on a phrase to another
noun or pronoun. Whose, who, which that
 Distributive :- Denote members of a group separately but not
collectively. Each, every, either, everyone, none, any
 Indefinite :- when the things they denote are not specific
Anybody, anyone, somebody, Nobody.
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7. ADJECTIVES
ADJECTIVE OF
QUALITIES
A OF QUANTITY PROPER AD DEMOUNTRATIVE DISTRIBUTIVE INTERROGATIVE POSSESSIVE
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8.  Quality:- Quality of a person or a thing.
 The brave lady saved the people
 The room was bright
 Quality:- answer the question, how many?
 He ate two apples
 There were few children playing in the park
 Proper :- formed from proper noun
 Mohan is fond of Chinese cuisine
 Edward is a French citizen
 Demonstrative :- indicate which person or thing.
 Those shops are closed
 He got admission in that school.
 This poster is impressive
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9.  Possessive :- on a sense of belonging to a particular person or a
thing.
 My book, his pencil, its tail
 Interrogative :- used with nouns to ask questions
 Whose book is this?
 Which airport ?
 Distributive :- Each one of a number in a group
 Every child was a gift
 Each girl carried a flower
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10. VERB
ACTION
WORDS
TRANSITIVE
• AR VERB THAT HAVE AN
OBJECT
• EG: JANE SIGNS A SONG
INTRANSITIVE
• THAT DO NOT HAVE AN
OBJECT
• SUMAN RUNS
FINITE VERBS
• CHANGE THEIR FORMS
WHEN THERE IS A CHANGE
IN THE PERSON AND
NUMBER OF THE SUBJECT
• EG: HE WALKS HOME
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11. Adverb
Qualifies the verbs
The girls walked Excitedly
She dance gracefully
My sister goes to the gym regularly
He runs slowly
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12. Prepositions
A preposition, if you recall, is a word which shows the relation
between a noun or a pronoun and other words in a sentence.
 Place :- at, in, on
 Time :- by, after, since
 Direction :- towards, into, down.
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13. CONJUCTIONS
COORDINATING
• Eg: FOR, AND, SO,
YET, OR
SUBORDINATIVE
• Eg: ALTHOUGH,
AFTER, BECAUSE
UNLESS, IF, AFTER,
AS
CORRELATIVE
• Eg: EITHER, NON-
BOTH, NO SOON….
THAN, NOT ONLY
BUT ALSO
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14. Interjections
Interjections are words which show strong emotion.
Alas ! He is no more,
Hurrah!
Oh!, oh dear!, ouch!, wow!
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15. Reference
 English grammar and composition
 Four skills for communication
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16. Thank you
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