Elements of Language: Chapter 1 - Parts of Speech Overview

Elements of Language: Chapter 1 - Parts of Speech Overview

by Kadmiel Rey

Table of Content

1. ​The Noun

   1. ​The Pronouns

2. ​The Adjectives

3. ​The Verbs

4. ​The Adverbs

5. ​The Prepositions

​THE NOUNS

​The Noun

• ​is a word or word group that is used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.

• ​TYPES OF NOUNS

  • ​Common and ​Proper

  • ​Concrete and Abstract

  • ​Compound

  • ​Collective

PROPER NOUN

• ​is a PARTICULAR person, place, thing, or idea is capitalized

COMMON NOUN

• ​any one of a group of persons, places, things, or ideas, and is generally not capitalized.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are PROPER NOUNS?

• Guam 

• Mount Tapochou

• islands

• Ferdinand Magellan 

Open Ended

Give three examples of COMMON NOUNS.

CONCRETE NOUN

• identifies a person, place or things that can be perceived by one or more of the senses

ABSTRACT NOUN

• names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.

Open Ended

Identify and classify the noun in these sentence:

1. Some words come from other language, such as Spanish and French. 

2. Books, music, and movies often feature new words that are then added to everyday English. 

COMPOUND NOUN

• consists of two or more words used together as a single noun. Can be written as one word, as a separate words, or as a hyphenated word. 

​Examples:

​one word: newspaper

​Separate words: Ice Cream

​Hyphenated word: great-grandmother

​COLLECTIVE NOUN

​a word that names a group.

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​Examples:

1. ​people: audience

2. ​animals: flock

3. ​things: batch

​TEXTBOOK WORK

​Go to page 52 and on a separate page of your notebook, do Exercise 4: Identifying nouns.

​The Pronoun

​PRONOUN

​is a word that used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.

• ​antecedent: the word that a pronoun stands for or refers to.

​

​Example:

​Jason loves Asam black tea.

He would always buy it before going home.

*​Jason = He

​**Asam Black Tea = it

​PERSONAL PRONOUNS

​FIRST PERSON:

• ​I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours

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​SECOND PERSON:

• ​You, your, yours

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​THIRD PERSON:

• ​He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.

REFLEXIVE AND INTENSIVE

​FIRST PERSON:

• ​myself, ourselves​

​SECOND PERSON:

• ​yourself, yourselves

​

​THIRD PERSON:

• himself, herself, itself, themselves

​Reflexive Pronoun: refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition.

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Intensive Pronouns:

​emphasizes it's antecedent and has no grammatical function.

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS

used to point out specific person, place, thing, or idea

​

• ​This

• ​That

• ​These

• ​Those

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS

introduces a question

​

• Who

• ​Whom

• ​Which

• ​What

• ​Whose

RELATIVE PRONOUNS

​introduces a subordrinate clause

​

• ​that

• ​which

• ​who

• ​whom

• ​whose

Indefinite Pronouns

refers to one or more persons, places, ideas, or things that my or may not be specifically named.​

THE LIST:​

all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each , either, everyone, everything, few, many, more, most, much, neither, nobody, none, no one, nothing, one, other, several, some, somebody, something, such.

​TEXTBOOK WORK

​​Go to page 55 and on a separate page of your notebook, do Exercise 6: Identifying pronouns.