Parts of Speech
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hannahbonana555 on December 14, 2007
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The eight parts of speech | nouns,pronouns,adjectives,verbs,adverbs,prepositions,conjunctions,and interjections |
| nouns | person,place,thing,or idea |
| proper noun | specific noun |
| common noun | non-specific noun that names any person,place,thing,or idea |
| concrete noun | can be percieved by the senses |
| abstract noun | names idea, feeling,quality,or characteristic |
| compound | two or more words used as a single word |
| pronouns | word used in the place of a noun |
| personal | he,she,it,they,I,we,their,our |
| reflexive/intensive | myself,yourself,himself,itself,herself |
| indefinite | all,several,any,most,every |
| relative | wh,whom,whose,which,that |
| interrogative | who?,whose?,what?,whom?,which? |
| demonstrative | this,that,these,those |
| antecedent | noun that the pronoun takes the place of |
| adjectives | word used to modify a noun of pronoun |
| article | commonly used adjective (a,an,the) |
| indefinite article | a,an |
| definite article | the |
| pronouns can be used as adjectives | ex: Use THIS brush. |
| nouns can be used as adjectives | ex: BLUE water |
| adjectives tell | what kind? how many? which one? |
| verbs | a word used to express an action or state of being |
| transitive verb | action verb that expresses an action directed toward a person or thing named in the sentences ex: Jan SERVED the bread. |
| intransitive verb | action verb that expresses an action without passing the action from a subject to an object ex: We RODE in silence. |
| linking verb | serves as a link between two words ex: The writer IS talented. |
| verb phrases | a main verb proceded by at least one helping verb ex: Sandra IS LEAVING |
| adverbs | word used to modify a verb,adjective, or another adverb |
| adverbs answer | where,when,how,to what extent |
| advers often end in | -ly |
| adverbs are located | before or after word the modify |
| adverb answering where? example | Let's go INSIDE. |
| adverb answering when? example | We can leave NOW. |
| adverb answering how? example | The alarm rang WILDLY. |
| adverb answering to what extent? example | She HARDLY noticed. |
| prepositions | word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence |
| preposition example | we hung the picture BESIDE the sofa.(sofa is object of preposition) |
| conjunctions | words used to join words or groups of words |
| coordinating conjunctions | connect items of the same kind (and,but,for,nor,or,so,yet) |
| correlative conjunction | connect items of the same kind in pairs (both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also,whether...or) |
| Interjections | word used to express emotion and that has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence (Hooray,oh,wow) |
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