Adjectives
- Describe or limit the meaning of nouns and pronouns.
- They answer one of three questions:
- Which one?
- What kind?
- How many?
- The good students.
- The great book.
- Change when used as comparatives (great, greater, greatest).
- Usually precede the nouns they modify.
Adverbs
- Add to or modify the meaning of verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
- Adverbs help answer:
- How?
- When?
- Where?
- They read their assignments eagerly
- Most adverbs end in ~ly.
- Adverbs generally follow or precede the verbs they modify.
Conjunctions
- Connect words, phrases, and clauses within a sentence.
- I came to class, but I was five minutes late.
- Some conjunctions (however, but, moreover, etc) also show the relationship between ideas.
Interjections
- An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.
- It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.
- You usually follow an interjection with an exclamation mark.
- Interjections are uncommon in formal academic prose, except in direct quotations.
- Watch out!
- Wow!
Nouns
- Name persons, places, things, and ideas.
- Classes of nouns.
- Common nouns - refer to non-specific places, things and ideas.
- Proper nouns - refer to specific person, places, or things and always begin with a capital letter.
- Nouns are capitalized when referring to specific people , places, or things.
Pronouns
- Pronouns take the place of a noun.
- He went with her to the concert.
- Pronouns change form according to the noun they replace.
Prepositions
- Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in a sentence.
- He came into the room and sat at the table.
- Prepositions usually come before a noun or pronoun to form a prepositional phrase.
Verbs
- Verbs express action or state of being.
- The people cheered the speaker.
- Verb forms changes to reflect person and time.
- Verbs agree with the subject in person and number.
See: http://www.johnsesl.com/templates/grammar/partsofspeech.php.http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
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Parts of Speech
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