Transcript parts of speech - High Point University

Minor Parts of Speech
 Pronouns
 Auxiliaries
 Conjunctions
 Determiners
 Qualifiers
 Prepositions
 Isolates
PRONOUNS
 Definition:
a word that replaces a noun
or noun phrase
Types of Pronouns
 Personal
 Demonstrative
 Reflexive
 Intensive
 Indefinite
Personal Pronouns

Person


1st Person
Case

• Speaker

• Functions as the subject
2nd Person

• Addressee

Subjective (he)
Objective (him)
• Functions as the object
3rd Person

Possessive (his)
• Innocent bystander 

Number


Singular
Plural

Gender



Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
Demonstrative Pronouns
 Definition:
words that point out an
object and are often accompanied with
pointing gesture
Plural
these
Singular
this
that
those
Reflexive & Intensive Pronouns
 Definition:
form ends in –self
 Reflexive


Object
Ex. Hillary hurt herself.
 Intensive


Modifier
Ex. Hillary bought herself a new car.
Indefinite Pronouns
“leftover class of pronouns”
QUANTIFIERS
several
everybody
none
another
AUXILAIRIES


“Helping Verbs: words that may join with the
true verb in making up the complete verb of a
sentence
Voice

Active
• Single verb
• Point of view of the doer
• Ex. Jake called every member of the class.

Passive
• Form of be (auxiliary) followed by past
participle form of main verb
• Point of view of the person effected by action
• Ex. Every member of the class was called by
Jake.
CONJUNCTIONS

COORDINATING


Connect two elements
of equal grammatical
status
Example
•
•
•
•
•
•
and
but
or
for
nor
so

SUBORDINATING


Connect structures
of unequal
grammatical status
Connect clauses only
DETERMINERS
 Signifies
that a noun is coming
 Modifies a noun but cannot be made
comparative or superlative
 Precedes adjectives in a noun phrase
 Words:
the, a, an, our, this, some, every,
first, all
QUALIFERS

Definition: modifies
an adjective or an
adverb, either
strengthening or
weakening its
meaning

Words







more
most
very
quite
rather
somewhat
each
PREPOSITIONS
Definition: a word that
shows the relation of a
noun or pronoun to some
other word in the
sentence
 Usually followed by a
noun phrase
 “Anything a plane can do
to a cloud” 
 Example: above, around,
through, behind, with,
to, at, during

ISOLATES
OUCH!!
Definition: Words
that are not
grammatically
connected to other
sentence parts and
are typically
separated with
commas
 Indicates the
speaker’s attitude or
feelings

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!
This concludes our
study of the minor
parts of speech.
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