Parts+Of+Speech

Parts of speech include nouns. A noun is a word that represents a person place or thing. Nouns should also answer the questions who and what.

The following video should give a view examples on nouns and how to use them. Tip- The way i remember what defines nouns is i just think about the questions "Who,What,Where" You could also think of those as the three W's for nouns. media type="file" key="Nouns Video_0003.wmv"

Another part of speech includes pronouns. This time i put a link to a powerpoint i created below. This should help you learn pronouns. I hope you enjoy. Tip- When i think of pronouns i think of them as just indirect words. They point towards someone or something without naming their true name. I just think of that and whenever i see "Him,her,they,he,she,etc." i think of pronouns.

The third part of speech i will be describing is Verbs. Verbs are commonly known as a word used to show an action such as running,walking,or talking. Rather than making a link to any video or powerpoint i will describe the remaining parts of speech on this page.

As described before a verb is a work that shows meaning to an action or state of being (They are full of passion, Passion being the verb in the sentence). Verbs are not very difficult to learn and understand. Verbs can come more than once in a sentence,or we can get what we call a verb phrase. And example of this would be "Bob was reading when i saw him before." the verb phrase was "Was reading" because it shows what the subject (Bob) was doing. Tip: When you think of verbs,you should just think of them as everything you do. If you move you just made a verb. When i am reading something and i am supposed to find a verb i can easily guess the verbs. An easier way to think of verbs is that it verbs are actions or how your feeling towards something. If your full of hate then hate is the verb. (I hope you are not full of hate because that wouldn't be good at all)

The fourth part of speech i will be describing is adjectives. Adjectives are commonly known as words that describe something or somone. The proper definition of adjectives is word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. An example is "My neighbors house is made of bricks that are painted white." The adjectives in the sentence are "bricks" and "painted white". Those words describe the subject (My neighbors house) and thus they are adjectives. Tip- A way to classify adjectives easier is just to know all it is doing is describing something or someone.

The fifth part of speech i will be describing is adverbs. The definition to adverbs is words that modify or describe verbs. So in a way these are like adjectives and the only difference is that they describe verbs rather than nouns. Something i forgot to mention is that adverbs can also modify adjective. An example of a sentence with an adverb would be "I walked awkwardly after i hurt my leg." The adverb in that sentence is awkwardly. The reasoning to this is that it modify's the verd "Walked". Another example is "The man wore a extremely colorful shirt to class" The adverb in the sentence is extremely because it modify's the adjective "Colorful" Adverbs can often end but not always end in -ly. Tip- Ad-verbs. Think of the word adjective and the word verb. If you combine them you would get something close to that. So what did you do to combine the words? You modified them. And what did i do to help you? I described a way to help. Adverbs modify or describe a verb or adjective. This is how i remember adverbs. I also just look at the words before and after the verb and adjective and look if their modifying or describing the word.

The sixth part of speech i will be descrbing is conjunctions. The definition of conjunction is a word that joins two independent clauses, or sentences together. An example would be: "I really wanted to go to the store,but it was too hot outside." and another would be "I didn't want to cause a disturbance,so i walked quietly to the other side of the class to sharpen my pencil." The two conjunctions in the examples given are but and so. The reason they are the conjunctions is because they joined the two sentences together above. A few words used as conjuntions include: And,but,for,nor, and yet. Tip- I am not sure if these tips are helping,but i sure help they are. The thing with conjunctions is that it is one word combining two sentences together. In the first sentence that word was "but". The way i check if a word is a conjunction is rather simple. I take the word i deem a conjunction out of the sentence and if it forms what looks like two sentences you have a conjunction.

The last part of speech i will be describing is prepositions. The definition of prepositions is words that work in combination with a noun or pronoun to create phrases that modify verbs, nouns/pronouns, or adjectives. These are kind of tricky or it may just be me who thinks this. None the less it would be best to learn them than not know them at all. An example would be "I ran down the dark road in New York. There are two prepostions in the last sentence. Can you take a guess? If you're like me you would just read on and not take a guess at all,but sometimes it helps to guess on things and try to get a grip on the subject yourself. The two prepositions are "Down the dark road" and "In New York". "Down the dark road" modify's the verb "ran" by describing where i am running and the preposition "in New York" modify's the noun "road" by telling the person who reads this where the road is. //A note to the viewer:You will not find me in New York,so don't try to find me there.// //Tip- These remind me of adverbs. They refer to modifying something. But this time it can be multiple words. If you look at a verb and then the words after you should see a difference between adverbs and prepositions. The other difference is that prepositions can modify nouns and pronouns too. This may help you know prepositions from adverbs,but i can only hope.//

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