Transcript Kirby`s POS "beachball" ppt.

GRAMMAR
From
The Magic Lens by
Michael Clay Thompson
The 8 Parts of
Speech
Noun
Verb
Pronoun
Adjective
Adverb
Conjunction
Preposition
Interjection
Noun
A noun is a person,
place, thing, or idea.
place— Rolling Meadows,
stadium,
beach
thing—ball,
water,
sand

idea—happiness, love, freedom
Verb
Action & Linking Verbs
Action verbs—indicates something
that can be done or performed
(“what you do”)
run, jump, skip, scream, swim
State of being (Linking Verbs) links
the subject to another word
He is cute. He is tall. He
is in the room.
He=cute; he=tall; he=in
the room
More linking verbs…
To be
Am, is, are, was, were, be,
been, being
Seems
Feels
Appears
linking verb or action
verb?
Bob ran.
Action! He is moving his
feet!
Bob seems fast.
Linking! Bob=fast.
Connects the adjective to
the noun it describes
linking verb or action
verb?
Betty is pretty.
Linking! Betty=pretty.
Links adjective pretty to
Betty.
Betty answered the
phone.
Action! She physically picked
up her phone.
Helping Verbs
Help the main verb in a sentence by
extending the meaning of the verb
Forms of Be
Forms of Do
Forms of
Have
am
Is
are
was
do
have
does
has
were
be, being,
been
did
had
More Helping Verbs
can
could
may
might
will
would
shall
should
Adjective
Describes a noun or
pronoun.
Which one?
What kind?
How many?
this, that
red, large, sick
six, four
hundred
How much?
None, little
Articles are Adjectives
a
an
the
Adjectives in Action
She saw a cute boy at the
football game.
He had dark hair and blue
eyes.
Adverb
Describes a verb,
an adjective, or
another adverb.
Where? Here, there, outside
When? Now, then, later, yesterday
How? Quickly, slowly, stupidly
How often? Never, twice, sometimes
How long? Hardly, greatly, very
How much? More, less
Adverbs
Adverbs in Action
He called yesterday.
(yesterday tells when
he called—modifies
verb)
She sang quite loudly.
(loudly tells how she
sang—modifies verb)
(quite tells how
loudly—modifies
adverb)
The very cute boy e-mailed
her.
(very tells how cute—
modifies adjective)
Take the place
of nouns.
Pronoun
It, its
He, him, his
She, her, hers
They, them, theirs
This, that, these, those
Myself, yourself, himself,
ourselves
Who, whose, whom,
which, that
Conjunctions
Link together
words, phrases,
and clauses.
Coordinating Conjunctions:
(co=together) (con=together) (junct=join)
and
but
or, nor, for
so
yet
Subordinating Conjunctions:
(sub=under) (con=together) (junct=join)
if
as
since
when
because
Preposition
Shows the
relationship
between its object
and another word
in the sentence.
Don’t end a sentence
with a preposition.
Prepositions
Show time, space, or direction
Time : before, during after
Space: in, on, beside, around,
among
Direction: to, from, toward
Prepositions never stand
alone. They are before their
object (a noun).
He ran over the hill.
Over=preposition hill=its
object ( a noun)
Over the hill=prepositional phrase
Prepositions:
About
Before
Above
Behind
Across
Below
Down
After
Beneath
During
Along
Besides
Amid
Between
Among
Beyond
Around
But
For
at
by
from
Concerning
Except
In
Through
With
Into
Throughout
Within
In back of
To
Without
In case of
Of
Toward
Off
On
Over
Past
since
In front of
Apart from
Under
As for
Underneath
As well as
Until
Aside from
Unto
Because of
Up
By means of
upon
Contrary to
In place of
In spite of
Inside of
Instead of
Out of
Together with
Up at
Up to
With regard to
A little word that
expresses a
feeling, calls
attention, says
yes or no, or
indicates a
pause.
Interjection
Wow!
Gee!
Yep!
Hey!
Well,
Ah!