Parts of Speech (NO PAPA, VIC)
Nouns (5C's and 3P's went to USA
Concrete (5 senses) or Abstract (Feeling)
Common: girl, tiger
Proper: Maya, Delhi
Countable: fingers, chairs
Concrete: spiky, bitter
Uncountable: grains of sand, information
Singular: student, teacher
Collective: class, family
Plural: people, ladders
Abstract: truth, happiness
Compound: cat food, playground
Possessive: her advice, t-shirt's logo
Pronouns (SO DRIP DRIP)
Subject (SO PRO family): you, he
Demonstrative (Mom): this, that
Interrogative (Cop): 5 W's
Distributive (Grandpa): either, neither
Intensive (Daughter): herself, himself
Reflexive (Son): myself, yourself
Personal (Sister-personal trainer):
Object (SO PRO family): me, you
Relative (Sister): that, which
Possessive (Dad): I > my > mine
Articles (show the specificity of noun/pronoun)
Definite: the
Indefinite: a, an
Adjectives (adjective DIPP got some PC's)
Proper: China, Chinese
Predicate: expensive, alone
Superlatives: strongest (any word which can end with -est)
Questions
Which one?
What kind?How many?
Whose?
Possessive: my, your, his, her
Interrogative: what, which whose?
Predicate: afloat, beautiful
Interjections (Ms. Comma & Mr. Exclamation)
Ms. Comma - Mild emotions
Mr. Exclaimation - Strong emotions
Adjectives: sweet, hooray
Nouns/Noun Phrases:
hello, boo-yah
Short clauses/sounds as interjections:
ugh, ouch
Verbs (M.V. and H.V. were IN-TRANSIT and met MODAL V.P.)
Verb Types
Helping (H. V.) - put in between the subject and main verb: am, is, were
Modal - giving meaning to the subject expressing possibility, ability, permission, or obligation: The doctor can see you now.
Transitive - an action that can be transferred to someone/something: She gave him the money.
Intransitive - an action which cannot be transferred to someone/something: We arrived at class huffing and puffing.
Phrasal - a mixture of a verb, a particle (sometimes two): must, can, shall
Main Verb (M.V.)
Linking - shows the connection between the subject and anything other than the obvious: is, be
Action - any word which shows physical movement: run, jump
Adverbs
mostly end in -ly: He sings loudly = loudly is the adverb & sings is the verb
Manner - How?: He swims well
Time - When?: I saw Sally today.
Place - Where?: I saw him at a restaurant
Degree - how much?: The water was extremely cold.
Conjunctions
Coordinating - have similar words on each side of the conjunction, Where? between 2 clauses/phrases so they can be joined: FANBOYS
Subordinating - allow you to join a dependant clause to the main clause: WHITE BUS
Prepositions
Words that show the relationship between noun/pronoun and some other word/element in the rest of the sentence: He sat on the chair.
Time - the relationship of time between the nouns and the other parts of the sentence: at, in, on
Place/Direction - the relationship of place between the nouns and the rest of the sentence: Jackson used to live in Uruguay.
Phrasal - the combination of two or more words which can be used as prepositions: because of, in addition to