Transcript Parts of Speech - Olivet Nazarene University

Parts of Speech
Everything you need to know
ADJECTIVES
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Modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying or
quantifying words.
Usually proceeds the noun or pronoun it modifies
EXAMPLES:
– The small boat foundered on the wine dark sea.
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The back room was filled with large, yellow rain boots.
* Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite
NOUNS
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a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and
abstract idea
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EXAMPLES:
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Late last year our neighbors bought a goat.
Portia White was an opera singer.
Proper v. Common Nouns
Noun Gender
Possessive Nouns
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PRONOUNS
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Can replace a noun or another pronoun
Personal, subjective, objective, possessive, demonstrative,
interrogative, relative, indefinite
White, House, Mr. Miller, Michael Jordan, Mickey Mouse
ADVERB
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can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a
clause
indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers
questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much”
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Usually ends in an -ly
EXAMPLES:
– The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes.
– We urged him to dial the number more expeditiously
VERBS
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Most important part of a sentence
Asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express
actions, events, or states of being
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Action verb v. linking verb
Jumping, playing, skipping, chewing
EXAMPLES:
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Dracula bites his victims on the neck.
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