8 Parts of Speech

Names a person, place, thing, or idea.

• General, not particular, name of noun.  
• Nurse, hospital, syringe. 

• Official name of noun. 
• Michael, London, Washington University. 

• The name of a quality or general idea.
• Persistence, democracy. 

• Represents a group of persons, animals, or things. 
• Family, flock, furniture. 

Takes the place of a noun, another pronoun, or a group of words acting as a noun. The word to which a pronoun refers to is the antecedent.

Refers to a specific person, place, thing, or idea by indicating first,second, or third person. Can be singular or plural.

• Shows possession or ownership. 
• My book, the book is mine. 

Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. 

• Compound preposition:More than one words
• Prepositional phrase: 
• Group of words that begin with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun, which is called the object of the preposition. 
• Michael left at noon. She learned basics of grammar. 

Word, phrase, or clause that modifies a noun. It answers the questions what kind, which one, how many,or how much. 

• Participle: A type of verb that functions as an adjective, usually ends in -ing or -ed.
• Absent-minded professor. 

Expresses an action or state of being. Expresses time through past, present, and future tense.

Link the subject of a sentence to a noun, pronoun, or predicate adjective. Does not show action. 

• -Commonly used linking verbs are forms of to be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been. 
• - Can relate to 5 senses: look, sound, smell, feel, taste. 
• - Can reflect a state of being: aappear, seem, become brow, turn, prove, remain. 

• Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. 
• Operates quickly, very somber, quite badly. 

Joins words, phrases, or clauses. 

Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, so, nor. 

Correlative ccconjuctions work in pairs to join words or phrases. Neither/nor.

SSubordinating conjunctions join 2 clauses or thoughts.  While he was away, she studied. 

Expresses emotion or exclamation, no grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence.  Yikes, whew.