Parts of Speech Notes PDF

Name _________________________________________ Period ______________ Parts of Speech 1. A noun is a word that names a person, place, animal, thing or idea. Kinds of nouns: Singular or plural desk / desks Common or Proper company...

Name _________________________________________ Period ______________ Parts of Speech 1. A noun is a word that names a person, place, animal, thing or idea. Kinds of nouns: Singular or plural desk / desks Common or Proper company / Coca-Cola Concrete or Abstract podium / love Collective jury, class, army 2. A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun. The noun that the pronoun stands for is called the antecedent. Personal Pronouns Nominative Case Singular Plural 1st person _____________________________________________________ 2nd person _____________________________________________________ 3rd person _____________________________________________________ Objective Case 1st person _____________________________________________________ 2nd person _____________________________________________________ 3rd person _____________________________________________________ Possessive Case 1st person _____________________________________________________ 2nd person _____________________________________________________ 3rd person _____________________________________________________ Indefinite Pronouns:_____________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Interrogative Pronouns: ________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Name _________________________________________ Period ______________ Demonstrative Pronouns: ______________________________________ ____________________________________________ 3. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. Which one? _________________________________________________ What kind? _________________________________________________ How many? ________________________________________________ How much? ________________________________________________ ***a, an, and the are adjectives (They are also called articles.) Proper Adjective: ___________________________________________ 4. A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being. An action verb is a verb that expresses mental or physical action. mental action: ___________________________________________________ physical action: __________________________________________________ A linking verb is a verb that does not show action but connects the subject with another word in the sentence. Some linking verbs are: ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ The following verbs can be used as linking verbs or action verbs (Both Way VERBS): _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ A helping verb helps the main verb express action or make a statement. Common helping verbs are: ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 5. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb. How? clearly, easily, slowly When? now, then, later, soon or How often? never, always, often, seldom Name _________________________________________ Period ______________ Where? here, there, away, up, inside To what extent? very, too, almost, so, really Why? (mainly for adverb clauses) 6. A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence. Write the common prepositions here: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The preposition never stands alone in a sentence. It is used with a noun or pronoun called the object of the preposition. This is called the prepositional phrase. 7. A conjunction is a word that joins words or groups of words. Coordinating conjunctions are ______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Correlative conjunctions are ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Subordinating conjunctions are _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Name _________________________________________ Period ______________ 8. An interjection is …. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________