PARTS OF SPEECH

PARTS OF SPEECH / WORD CLASSES

WHAT IS PART OF SPEECH

A part of speech is the role that a word plays in a sentence.

There are 8 main parts of speech.

Can you remember some of them?

Noun

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing or an idea.

Person: Daniel, Dufie, and Kwame

Place: London, Paris, and Dubai

Thing: pen, table, dress

Idea: love, grieve, friendship, patience

There are different types of nouns including: Proper Nouns, Improper Nouns, Concrete Nouns, Abstract Nouns, Compound Nouns, Collective nouns among others.

Help identify all the nouns in this paragraph.

Steven was getting ready for school. He brushed his teeth and ate his breakfast. He got his bag ready, put his jacket on and shouted 'see you later!' to his mum as he headed out the door and walked to the bus stop.

Pronoun

Pronouns are words used to replace a noun. Without pronouns, spoken and written English would be very repetitive.

There are different types of pronouns. They include; I, me, you, they, us, he, she, it, mine, ours, yours, theirs, someone, somebody, who, whom, whose, etc.

Example

Thomas went to bed because Thomas was tired.

Thomas went to bed because he was tired.

Open Ended

Rewrite this sentence and replace the underlined noun with a pronoun.

Sam heard a noise from the cave. There was definitely

something inside the cave.

Open Ended

Rewrite the sentence, replacing the underlined nouns with the

correct pronouns.

Sara played Scrabble even though Sara doesn’t really like Scrabble.

Multiple Select

Which of these sentence is grammatically correct?

• Me and Danielle worked at the computer.

• Danielle and I worked at the computer.

Verb

A verb is an action or doing word.It shows what someone or something is doing. It also shows a state of being like am and was.

Examples: is, came, speak, jump, walk, was, eating, are, read, play, fight, sing etc.

Neena read her book in the library.

Annie swam without her arm bands.

Dad came home early yesterday.

Open Ended

Write a sentence with the verb drive.

Note that a verb has four main forms namely present tense, present continuous, past tense and past participle.

Example: The verb 'Drive'

Present = drive

Present contentious = driving

Past = drove

Past participle = driven

Can you think of some example? Share with the class.

Adjectives

Adjectives describe a noun. It modifies or gives more information about a noun or pronoun.

Examples: green, small, good, smooth, beautiful, helpful, long etc.

The cheese was rather smelly!

The pancakes were hot and delicious.

Multiple Select

Which adjective would you choose to describe the noun in this sentence?

Our neighbour is a ....... man.

• Happily

• Later

• Polite

Multiple Select

Which adjective would you choose to describe the noun in this sentence?

She picked some ..... flowers.

• Brave

• Pretty

• Every

Adjectives have three degrees of comparison. These are;

• Positive - Small

• Comparative - Smaller

• Superlative - Smallest

• Positive - Good

• Comparative - Better

• Superlative - Best

• Can you try this Beautiful