Parts of Speech

Name: ______No. ______Grammar-1 Parts of Speech

 Try to find the eight traditional word classes in the following nursery rhyme:

A noun’s the name of anything; As school or garden, hoop or swing. Adjectives tell the kind of noun; As great, small, pretty, white or brown. Instead of nouns the pronouns stand: Me and mine, you and yours, he, she -- and Verbs tell of something being done: You read, count, sing, laugh, jump or run. Hoe things are done the adverbs tell; As slowly, quickly, not or well. Conjunctions join the words together; As men and women, wind or weather. The preposition stands before A noun; as in or through a door. The interjection shows surprise; As Oh! How pretty! Ah! How nice!

 Nouns: ______Nouns come in many forms: 1. definitions examples Common nouns

Proper nouns

2 definitions examples Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

3. definitions examples Collective nouns

4. definitions examples Compound nouns

5. definitions examples Singular nouns

Plural nouns

Finding rules dog-dogs; cat-cats; test-tests Rule 1: dish-dishes; match-matches; Rule 2: class-classes; box-boxes fly-flies; city-cities; battery- Rule 3: batteries; baby-babies day-days; key-keys; boy-boys knife-knives; life-lives Rule 4: shelf-shelves; leaf-leaves potato-potatoes; zoo-zoos Rule 5: zero-zeros/zeroes

child-children; foot-feet; Rule 6: goose-geese; man-men; mouse-mice; tooth-teeth

2  Adjectives:______Adjectives answer one of three questions: What kind? How many? Which one?

Adjectives come in many forms: definitions examples Common adjectives

Proper adjectives Demonstrative adjectives Using adjectives to compare

1. The positive level describes one thing.

2. The comparative level compares two things.

3. The superlative level compares three or more things.

 Pronouns: ______Pronouns come in many forms: 1. 3 definitions examples Personal pronouns Possessive pronouns

2. definitions examples Demonstrative pronouns 3. definitions examples Indefinite pronouns 4. definitions examples Reflexive pronouns 5. definitions examples Intensive pronouns 6. definitions examples Interrogative pronouns

 Verbs:______Verbs come in many forms: 1. definitions examples Action verbs

Linking verbs

4 definitions examples Regular verbs

Irregular verbs

Verb tenses Present tense I go to school every day. Past tense I ______to school last week. Future tense I ______to school next Monday. Present perfect tense I ______to school by bus for years. Past perfect tense I ______to fourth grade before I started fifth grade. Future perfect tense I ______to school for three months before we get a break.  Adverbs:______

functions examples Adverbs and verbs Adverbs and adjectives Adverbs and adverbs Comparing adverbs:

I run fast enough to make the track team, but Amy runs faster, and Tommy runs fastest.

 Conjunctions:______Conjunctions come in many forms:

5 definitions examples Coordinating conjunctions

Subordinatin g conjunctions Correlative conjunctions

Adverbial conjunctions

 Prepositions:______

definitions examples Prepositions

 Interjections:______

definitions examples Interjections

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