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“Parts of Speech”
Essential terminology
The brown fox quickly jumped over a lazy dog.
Subject Noun
Phrase
The brown fox
Prepositional
Phrase
quickly jumped
Verb Phrase
over a lazy dog
“Parts of Speech”
continued
Subject Noun
Phrase
Prepositional
Phrase
Verb Phrase
Preposition
over
Definite
Article
The
Object
Noun
Phrase
Noun
(Subject)
brown
Indefinite
Article a
fox
Adjective
Noun
lazy
Adjective
quickly
jumped
Adverb
Verb
dog (Object)
Articles
Definite Article:
the
Indefinite Articles:
a, an
Nouns
Nouns are:
• Persons,
• Places,
• Things,
• Ideas/feelings.
Adjectives
Adjectives describe
nouns:
accurate
big
clumsy
daring
elegant
feisty
glassy
horrible
idiotic
jolly
kingly
lost
morose
neat
opportunistic
peaceful
quarrelsome
relaxing
sad
tepid
unaware
vivacious
warty
yellow
“It was a beautiful bridge, and as I looked at this thing, she told me
what had happened." -- Leo Kotke
Verbs
Verbs are:
Blam, 1962. Oil on canvas
by Roy Lichtenstein
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, Connecticut
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Adverbs
Adverbs describe
verbs:
tightly
calmly
politely
warily
slyly
angrily
firmly
sadly
idly
suspiciously
jauntily
furtively
awkwardly
cautiously
furiously
swiftly
quickly
gracefully
jovially
willingly
seriously
proudly
gently
nervously
“'It's good to know that the maelstrom which is the PC industry
continues to swirl just as frantically as it always has done."
-- Eva Glass [example of bad adverb usage. –ed]
Prepositions
Prepositions describe relationships:
at
in
on
for
I was sitting
my desk…
the bathtub…
the stairs…
my portrait…
with my family at the dinner table…
Here is a partial list of prepositions:
on
behind
under
beside
between
on
into
off
over
upon
across
of
to
at
in
for
to
by