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[Pages:3]The Eight Parts of Speech
1. Nouns- name persons, places, things, or ideas. Examples of persons: mother, father, Susie, Joe, Mrs. Applegate Examples of places: city, home, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Examples of things: house, ring, shoe, table, desk, chair, light Examples of ideas: grief, democracy, courage, independence
Sentence using Nouns- Susie asked Joe to go to Mrs. Applegate's home.
2. Pronouns- takes the place of a noun. A). Examples of personal pronouns
Singular I You He/She/It
Plural We You They
who whoever
I bought a book at the bookstore.
Singular Me You Him/Her/It
Plural Us You Them
Whom Whomever
What do you think of the two of us? Can you hand the paper to him? B). Examples of possessive pronouns: my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, our, ours, their, and theirs. The purple notebook is mine. C). Examples of indefinite pronouns: anybody, anyone, each, either, none, someone, somebody, both, everyone, no one, neither, many, few, several, and one. Everyone is leaving early for Thanksgiving break. D). Examples of interrogative pronouns: who, whom, what, which, and whose.
Whom do you think we should invite to the party? E). Examples of demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, and those.
This must not continue. 3. Verbs- express action or state of being.
Action: I read the novel, Don Quixote.
The professor spoke to the students about their noise level.
State of Being:
Is Are The computer sits on the small table.
Am
Was
Were
I completed the research paper.
4. Adverbs- describe a verb (an action) by telling how, when, where, and how much.
The students quickly completed their homework. (Verb)
The professor waited patiently for the student to answer the question. (Verb)
5. Adjectives- describe a noun/pronoun by telling which, how many, and what kind.
The girl had light, shiny brown hair.
(Noun)
6. Prepositions- show relationships between nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in the
sentence.
About Above Against Among As As well as At Because of Before
Beside Besides Between By Despite Down During Except From
List of Prepositions
In front of Like Near Next to Off Onto Out (of) Outside Past
Toward Under Underneath Until Up Upon Within Without
Behind
Inside
Since
Below
Instead of
Through(out)
Beneath
In addition to
to
The airplane flew between two clouds, through another cloud, upon three clouds, and below
numerous clouds.
7. Conjunctions:
A.) Coordinating conjunctions link words, phrases and complete sentences of equal value.
Coordinating
Conjunctions:
For
Or
And
Yet
Nor
So
But
_______
The boy wanted to go home after class, but Susie wanted to stay and work.
(Try to remember the word FANBOYS, For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So.)
B.) Subordinating conjunctions link independent clauses (complete thoughts) to dependent clauses (incomplete thoughts).
If Because Although When Unless After As As if
Subordinating Conjunctions: As soon as As though Before In order that Provided Since So that Than
Though Until Whenever Whether While
, A.) Since it is raining today I will carry my umbrella.
(Incomplete thought) (Complete thought)
I will carry my umbrella since it is raining today.
(Complete thought) (Incomplete thought)
8. Interjections: show emotion. They can either be mild or strong.
Examples: Ouch! That hurt!
Oh no! I forgot that the exam was today.
Hey! Put that down.
The Writing Center Clarion University of Pa. ?2009
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