parts of speech i
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PARTS OF SPEECH I. PARTS OF SPEECH. OPEN CLASS. CLOSED CLASS. NOUNS. VERBS. ADJECTIVES. ADVERBS. PRONOUNS. PREPOSITIONS. CONJUNCTIONS. DETERMINERS. AUXILIARIES. NOUNS. a word which names a person, place or thing proper nouns and common nouns. KLCC. NORISH KARMAN. AN ELEPHANT. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
PARTS OF SPEECHI
OPEN CLASS CLOSED CLASS
PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES ADVERBS
PREPOSITIONS CONJUNCTIONS DETERMINERS AUXILIARIESPRONOUNS
NOUNS a word which names a person, place or thing proper nouns and common nouns
AN ELEPHANT
KLCC NORISH KARMAN
Most nouns are common nouns and do not begin with a capital letter.
Proper nouns are nouns which begin with a capital letter because it is the name of a specific or particular person place or thing.
Malaysia Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak Atlantic Ocean February Monday New York City Salina Maple Street Burger King
If you see a word beginning with a capital letter in in the middle of a sentence, it is probably a proper noun.
Many nouns have a special plural form if there is more than one. For example,
we say one book but two books. Plurals are usually formed by adding an -s (books) or -es (boxes)
some plurals are formed in different ways (child - children, person - people, mouse - mice, sheep
- sheep)
VERBS a word which shows action or state of being every sentence must have a verb
The dog bit the man.
bit is the verb and the word which shows the action of the sentence.
The man is sitting on a chair. even though the action doesn't
show much activity, sitting is the verb of the sentence.
She is a smart girl.
there is no action but a state of being expressed by the verb is.
the word be is different from other verbs in many ways but can still be thought of as a verb.
Verb ‘To Be’
Subject Present Past Perfect(past
participle)
Progressive(present
participle)I am was have been am being
We are were have been are being
You are were have been are being
They are were have been are being
He is was has been is being
She is was has been is being
It is was has been is being
Modals
Verbs are also often accompanied by verb-like words called modals (may, could, should, etc.) auxiliaries (do, have, will, etc.)
to give them different meanings
verbs change their form Sometimes endings are added
learn - learned sometimes the word itself becomes different
teach-taught The different forms of verbs show different
meanings related to such things as : tense (past, present, future) person (first person, second person, third person) number (singular, plural) voice (active, passive)
ADJECTIVES
modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. a beautiful girl five thick book
An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
The truck-shaped balloon floated over the treetops.
Mrs. Morrison papered her kitchen walls with hideous wall paper.
The small boat foundered on the wine dark sea. The coal mines are dark and dank. Many stores have already begun to play irritating
Christmas music. A battered music box sat on the mahogany
sideboard. The back room was filled with large, yellow rain
boots.
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause.
An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".
Unlike an adjective, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentence.
The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes.
In this sentence, the adverb "quickly" modifies the verb "made" and indicates in what manner (or how fast) the clothing was constructed.
The midwives waited patiently through a long labour. Similarly in this sentence, the adverb
"patiently" modifies the verb "waited" and describes the manner in which the midwives waited.
The boldly spoken words would return to haunt the rebel.
In this sentence the adverb "boldly" modifies the adjective "spoken."
Fill in the blanks. On a _____________ day at the end of March,
____________ decided that he/she was tired of playing inside. ________________ needed some adventure. So he/she grabbed his/her ________________ and his/her _____________ and set off. There was fresh snow on the ground and the clouds were ___________________.
The first thing _____________ saw was a ___________________ standing beside a tree. He/She __________ over to the _______________. "What's your name?" asked ____________. The ___________ replied, "__________________." Was this the beginning of the adventure ______________ was seeking?
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On the ground Brother saw a __________. It was the color of __________ and had a texture like __________. It reminded him of __________.