parts of speech meeting #1 universitas multimedia nusantara
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Parts of Speech
Meeting #1Universitas Multimedia Nusantara
SentenceA sentence is a string of words that
carry meaning. It starts with a capital letter and ends
with a full stop.Examples:
A dog is chasing a cat.My father works at the hospital.
The following are not sentences: When I met her Probably, it. A group of fruits eat their grass through
cane midnight. Doctor will together pain rub stomach.
Parts of Speech
Is a traditional term to describe the different types of words that form a sentence.i.e. noun, pronoun, verb,
adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, determiner.
These parts of speech usually occupy certain places in a sentence.
For example, the subject of a sentence is usually a noun or a noun phrase.
However, sometimes it is not that easy as a class of word can function as another, e.g. gerunds are verbs that function as nouns.
Grammatical Function
Santoso is a wonderful son. By function:
Santoso subject is verb a wonderful son subject complement
(it explains the subject)
By parts of speech (grammatical category): Santoso proper noun is verb (auxiliary verb) a determiner wonderful adjective son noun
If we know the parts of speech we can construct any sentence that is grammatically correct. Mary works at the factory.
S V Adv
My cousin lives next door.
I went to Africa last year. The book that I read belongs to the library.
Basic Sentence Patterns
There are 7 basic sentence patterns: SV Hillary yawned SVO Hillary opened the door SVC Hillary is ready SVA Hillary lives in London SVOO Hillary gave me a pen SVOC Hillary got a shoe wet SVOA Hillary put the box on the
table
Clause or Phrase?
A clause has a verb in it, whereas a phrase doesn’t.
Every week she goes shopping. She went to the city with her friends. The building at the corner of the
street is our campus.
The underlined are phrases.