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PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
Nouns are words that stand for people, places, things, or ideas. A noun can represent something that physically exists (a mountain, a car) or a concept (a memory, love).
Pronouns are words that stand in for nouns in a sentence.
INTERJECTIONS
Interjections are words used to express strong emotion.
Sample interjections: Hey! Ouch! Damn! Pow!
They have no grammatical relationship to the rest of the sentence and are rarely found in academic or formal writing.
There are eight forms of words in the English language, typically called the parts of speech.
They are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
VERBS
Verbs are words that express action or being. They can be intransitive and transitive
INTRANSITIVE
Complete in themselves.
Transitive verbs can be action or being.
Sample intransitive verbs: sleeps, thrives, lingers
Sample transitive action verbs: carries, gives, shakes
Sample transitive being verbs: is, was, were
TRANSITIVE
Requiring a complement to make sense
ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
Adjectives and adverbs are modifiers that provide further information about another word.
An adjective describes a noun. Articles (a, an, the) are categorized as adjectives.
Sample: the lazy schoolboy, the blue door, a quick run
An adverb describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Sample: He swam rapidly towards the finish line. (“Rapidly” modifies the verb “swam” tells us how he swam)
PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS
Prepositions and conjunctions make connections between groups of words.
Conjunctions
A conjunction is a word that connects words or groups of words.
There are three types of conjunctions:
Coordinating conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions connect groups of grammatically similar words. There are seven coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet.
Correlative conjunctions
Correlative conjunctions use pairs of coordinating conjunctions.
Subordinating conjunctions.
Subordinating conjunctions connect an adverb or a noun to the main clause.
Prepositions
A preposition links a noun or pronoun to other words in the sentence. Prepositions are often used to show relationships (often in logic, space, or time) between the noun and the rest of the sentence.
Sample - adverb: The dog crawled under the sofa. (The preposition “under” connects the verb “crawled” to the noun “the sofa.” “Under” begins the prepositional phrase that tells us where.)
PARTS OF SPEECH - OVERVIEW
