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8 Parts of Speech
adjective
adverb
noun
verb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
interjections
A
NOUN
is the
first part of speech:
1.
Persons: Mrs. Jones, mother, woman,
Mary
2.
Places:
city, home, California, China
3.
Things: home,
shirt, necklace, chair, week, lamp
4.
Ideas:
happiness, grief, courage, obedience, autocrac
Nouns can be concrete
(touched
–
a ball) or
abstract (love)
Nouns can be proper or
common:
1.
Proper: begin with capital letter,
referring to a specific
name or title,
a particular person, place thing or idea.
2.
Common: not
capitalized, referring to a non-specific
person, place, thing or idea
Common nouns: country, language,
father, sister, professor
Proper nouns:
China, Japanese, Bill Clinton
A
PRONOUN
takes
the place of a noun.
1.
Personal: I, me, she, it, them, us
2.
Possessive:
mine, yours its, their(s)
3.
Indefinite: anybody, each, no one, few,
several, one
4.
Interrogative: who, what, whose, which,
whom
5.
Demonstrative: these, those, that, this
An
ADJECTIVE
modifies nouns.
Adjective answer these
questions:
KIND of noun is
it?
2. WHICH noun is it?
3. HOW MANY of that noun
are there?
ARTICLES a
adjectives: the, a, an, and they always modify
nouns
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