<p> Name: ______No. ______Grammar-1 Parts of Speech</p><p> Try to find the eight traditional word classes in the following nursery rhyme:</p><p>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!</p><p> Nouns: ______Nouns come in many forms: 1. definitions examples Common nouns</p><p>Proper nouns</p><p>2 definitions examples Concrete nouns</p><p>Abstract nouns</p><p>3. definitions examples Collective nouns</p><p>4. definitions examples Compound nouns</p><p>5. definitions examples Singular nouns</p><p>Plural nouns</p><p>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</p><p> child-children; foot-feet; Rule 6: goose-geese; man-men; mouse-mice; tooth-teeth</p><p>2  Adjectives:______Adjectives answer one of three questions: What kind? How many? Which one?</p><p>Adjectives come in many forms: definitions examples Common adjectives</p><p>Proper adjectives Demonstrative adjectives Using adjectives to compare</p><p>1. The positive level describes one thing.</p><p>2. The comparative level compares two things.</p><p>3. The superlative level compares three or more things.</p><p> Pronouns: ______Pronouns come in many forms: 1. 3 definitions examples Personal pronouns Possessive pronouns</p><p>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</p><p> Verbs:______Verbs come in many forms: 1. definitions examples Action verbs</p><p>Linking verbs</p><p>2.</p><p>4 definitions examples Regular verbs</p><p>Irregular verbs</p><p>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:______</p><p> functions examples Adverbs and verbs Adverbs and adjectives Adverbs and adverbs Comparing adverbs:</p><p>I run fast enough to make the track team, but Amy runs faster, and Tommy runs fastest.</p><p> Conjunctions:______Conjunctions come in many forms:</p><p>5 definitions examples Coordinating conjunctions</p><p>Subordinatin g conjunctions Correlative conjunctions</p><p>Adverbial conjunctions</p><p> Prepositions:______</p><p> definitions examples Prepositions</p><p> Interjections:______</p><p> definitions examples Interjections</p><p>Parts of speech6</p>