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Overview of Parts of Speech

The document defines and provides examples for the eight parts of speech: 1) Nouns name people, places, things, ideas, or qualities. 2) Pronouns usually substitute for nouns and can be personal, interrogative, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, or intensive. 3) Verbs express actions or states of being. 4) Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs and tell how, when, where, how much, or why. 5) Adjectives describe or limit nouns. 6) Prepositions show relationships between nouns/pronouns and other parts of sentences. 7) Conjunctions connect words, phrases

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Overview of Parts of Speech

The document defines and provides examples for the eight parts of speech: 1) Nouns name people, places, things, ideas, or qualities. 2) Pronouns usually substitute for nouns and can be personal, interrogative, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, or intensive. 3) Verbs express actions or states of being. 4) Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs and tell how, when, where, how much, or why. 5) Adjectives describe or limit nouns. 6) Prepositions show relationships between nouns/pronouns and other parts of sentences. 7) Conjunctions connect words, phrases

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ASSIGNMENT # 02 PARTS OF SPEECH 1. NOUN A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, idea, or quality.

Examples: John, Mary, boy, girl, children; Pasadena, CEC; classrooms, notebooks; freedom, intelligence; hope, anger, joy 2. PRONOUN A pronoun is usually a substitute for a noun. The noun is called the "antecedent" (but an indefinite pronoun has no antecedent). Examples: a. Personal pronouns: I, mine, me; you, yours; he, his, him; she, hers, her; it, its; we, ours, us; they, theirs, them. b. Interrogative pronouns: who, whose, whom, which, what c. Relative pronouns (include): who, who, whose, which, that; whoever, whomever, whichever d. Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those e. Indefinite pronouns (include): all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, many, neither, nobody, no one, none, one, others, some, somebody, someone, such f. Intensive or reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves 3. VERB A verb expresses an action or a condition (a state of being). Examples: Robert will eat the hamburger. (action) Sara is happy. (condition or state of being) Robert wont eat the hamburger. Sara isnt happy.

4. ADVERB An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb. Adverbs usually tell how (for example: slowly), when (e.g., lately), where (e.g., there), how much (e.g., very), or why (e.g., therefore). Example: He always chews his gum loudly. 5. ADJECTIVE An adjective describes or limits a noun. Examples: tall, young, pretty, light, blue, new, white (The tall, young, pretty girl is wearing a light blue dress with her new white shoes.) (NOT: a light dress blue with her new shoes white.)

6. PREPOSITION A preposition usually shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another part of a sentence. There are many prepositions, including: about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, between, beyond, beside, besides, by, down, during, except, from, for, in, inside, into, like, near, next, of, off, on, out, out of, outside, over, past, round, since, than, through, till, to, toward, towards, under, underneath, unless, until, upon, up, with, within, without. Examples: My pencil is under my desk by my foot Martha drove from LA to NY. 7. CONJUNCTION A conjunction connects words, phrases, and clauses. Coordinate conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses of equal value: and, or, nor, but (and sometimes for). e.g., The dog and the cat are hungry.Correlative conjunctions occur in pairs: both-and, either-or, neither-nor, not only-but also. e.g., Both the fish and the snake are thirsty. Subordinate conjunctions connect unequal clauses (dependent clauses with independent clauses). They include: after, although, as, because, before, if, since, than, though, unless, until, when, where, while. e.g., After they ate, they had dessert. 8. INTERJECTION An interjection is a word that expresses feeling or emotion; usually it is followed by an exclamation mark. Examples: Oh! Ah! Wow! Darn! Gosh! Golly! Gee! Ow! Ouch! Yikes! Holy moly! Yippee! Hooray! Boo! Whew!

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