This document provides definitions and examples of different parts of speech in English including nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions. It explains that nouns are names of people, places, things or qualities. Verbs show actions or states of being and have different tenses and forms. Pronouns replace nouns. Adjectives describe nouns and answer questions like which, how many, and what kind. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs describing manner, place, time and degree. Conjunctions connect parts of sentences and can be coordinating, subordinating or correlative.

2.  A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or
quality.
Examples:
PERSON: a girl, a driver, Kevin
PLACE: a park, a city, Boston
THING: tennis balls, milk, a Toyota
QUALITY: friendship, joy, conficence
What questions does a noun answer?
Who or what.

3.  Proper and common
 P: Princess Diana, Los Angeles, Friday, a Toyota
 C: a princess, a city, a day, a product
 Concrete (perceive with senses) and abstract
(emotions, ideas, qualities)
 C: sunset, cars, cologne, doughnuts, breeze
 A: patience, childhood, justice, humor, success

4.  Count and non countable
 C: assignment, fact, machine
 N-C: homework, information, machinery
Identify the nouns in bold as
CONCRETE, ABSTRACT, COUNTABLE,
NON-COUNTABLE nouns.
Write the answers on your notebook.

5.  Verbs shows actions or being (existence). A
verb is the heart of any English sentence.
Examples:
 Action: run, eat, prepare, destroy, ask, love
 Being: be (am, is, are, was, were)
What question does a verb answer?
What does/did [subject] do?
 Verbs have four principal parts: base form,
past, past principle, and present participle.
 Verbs can be regular and irregular.

6.  Regular
 Their past and past participle forms use the suffix -ed.
Examples:
Work– worked Rob- robbed Flash- flashed
Copy-copied Pull- pulled Seem-seemed
 Irregular
 They use a variety of forms, including suffixes –en, -ne
as well as internal vowels changes or not.
Examples:
Take-took-taken Go-went-gone Sing- sang- sung
Cut-cut-cut Fall-felt-fallen

7.  Transitive
 They have an object for their action. (Who? and What?)
Example:
Love Kill Make Furnish (supply)
Persuade Sense Put Hit
I like the book
I didn´t eat a big breakfast in the restaurant.
 Intransitive
 They NEVER have an object for their action. Not done by
someone or something. They only involves a subject.
Example:
Die Arrive Occur
Thrive (grow) Happen Travel
Every single person voted.
He dissapeared after the birthday party.
The little girl sat quietly on the chair.

8.  Some verbs can be transitive and
intransitive.
Read Move Study Watch
Operate Run Agree Sit
Examples:
Mel walks for miles.
Mel walks the dog for miles
The apes played in the woods.
The apes played hide and seek in the woods.
Use your dictionary to know
if verbs are tr. or intr.

9. Tell if the verbs are transitive or intransitive. Mention objects
if the option is transitive.

10.  Present tense verbs tell us what is happening
now or talks about routines.
 Frogs croak loudly at night.
 Past tense verbs tell us what has already
happened.
 The frog croaked loudly last night.
 Future tense verbs tell us what will or might
happen.
 The frogs will croak loudly tomorrow night.
 Auxiliary verbs are helper verbs.
 That burglar alarm has been ringing for 10 minutes. I
will call the police.

11.  Auxiliary or helping verbs.
 Do
 How many cups of sugar does the recipe call for?
 Have
 The cost of living has been rising sharply.
 Modals
 You can do anything if you try.
 How will you get from the airport to lyour apartment?
 Shall we sit here for a while?

12.  A pronoun is a word that can replace, or
substitute for, a noun.
 Who? or What?
Example:
Oregon is on the western coast of the United States. It
is in the Pacific Time Zone.
 They can be:
 Object pronouns (me, you, him, her, it, us, them)
 Relative pronouns (who, that, which, whom)
 Indefinite pronouns (anyone, anything, anybody, someone,
something, somebody, no one, nobody)
 Reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself,
themselves, ourselves, yourselves)
 Demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those)
 Possessive pronouns(mine, yours, hers, his, its, theirs, ours)
 Reciprocal pronouns(each other, another)

13. Complete the
sentences using the
best pronoun.
 ________ want to eat now. (Daniel and Fabián)
 Can Marie see ________ , too? (Jack)
 Dr. Smith is a profesor ______ we like the most.
 The flight arrived late, _________ caused us
many problems.

14.  Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns.
EXAMPLES:
Good tallest slow problematic
Green national expensive adorable
 What questions does an adjective answers?
 Which? The green book is mine.
 How many? There are six children in her family.
 How much? No one received any mail today.
 What kind? Raw milk can be dangerous.

15.  More than one adjective to describe a noun have
a special order:
 # one, ten, thousands
 Opininon fantastic, expensive, awful
 Size big, long, small
 Age elder, ancient, young
 Shape round, flat, square
 Color scarlet, purple, dark blue
 Origin Japanese, Colombian, German
 Material wooden, golden, plastic
 Purpose rocking, camping, sun
Noun

21.  An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, and
adjective, or another adverb.
 They can be classified as:
 Manner: tells us how something is done or happens.
Ex: slowly, quietly, badly, happily, well, hard, fast
 Place: tells us where something is done or happens.
Ex: on the island, there, outside, below, under, upstairs
 Frequency: tells us how often something is done or
happens.
Ex: every day, often, rarely, twice
 Time: tells us when something is done or happens.
Ex: before, now, fist, early, immediately, last month,
soon, then, yesterday

22.  Degree: tells us the level or extent that
something is done or happens.
Ex: almost, hardly, extremely, very

23.  A conjunctoion is a word that connects parts
of a sentence together. They are…
 linking words:
 I see a cat and a dog.
 Phrases:
 The cat might be on the bed or under the sofa.
 Clauses:
 The cat couldn´t walk because it had a broken
leg.

24.  Common conjunctions include:
 Coordinating: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet
 Subordintating: after, although, before, because,
even if, if, now, that, since, though, unless,
until, when, while
 Correlative: both…, and…, either… or …, not only
…but also…