Transcript Aim: How can the study of the parts of speech help us understand

Aim: How can learning the parts
of speech improve our grammar
or writing?
What are the parts of speech?
Parts of Speech
• Parts of Speech. The parts of speech are:
•
verb
• noun
• adjective
• adverb
• preposition
• pronoun
• interjection
• and conjunction.
Noun
• Noun. A word that names a person, place, thing, or
idea.
• Example: This time he was aware that it was the
club, but his madness knew no caution. (The Call of
the Wild by Jack London).
Adjective
• Adjective. A word that describes.
An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun.
• Example: Human madness is oftentimes a cunning
and most feline thing. (Moby Dick by Herman
Melville)
Adverb
• Adverb. A word that describes a verb, explaining
where, when, how, or to what extent.
• An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another
adverb.
• Example: The time I spent upon the island is still so
horrible a thought to me, that I must pass it lightly
over. (Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson).
Conjunction
• Conjunction. A word that connects words or groups
of words.
• Examples: and, or, nor, but, yet, for, so.
• Example: Every little while he locked me in and went
down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded
fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and
got drunk and had a good time, and licked me.
(Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain).
Interjection
• Interjection. A word that is used to express strong
feeling that is not related grammatically to the rest
of the sentence.
• Example: Oh! No mortal could support the horror of
that countenance. (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley).
Pronoun
• Pronoun. A word that takes the place of one or more
nouns.
• Example: Do all men kill the things they do
not love? (The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare).
• Personal pronoun. Refers to a particular person, place,
thing, or idea.
• Example: I, me, we, us, you, he, him, she, her, it, they,
them.
Preposition
• Preposition. A word that shows the relationship
between a noun or pronoun and another word in a
sentence.
• Example: I had worked hard for nearly two years,
for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate
body. (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley).
Verb
• Verb. A word or words that show the action in the
sentence and tell what the subject is doing.
Example: A girl learns many things in a New England
village. (The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel
Hawthorne).
Linking Verb
• Linking verb. A verb that links the subject with a
predicate nominative or a predicate adjective.
• Example: is, became, remain, look, appear, seem.
• Example: Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely
innocent. (Daisy Miller by Henry James).