Parts of Speech Review Guide

With the Parts of Speech Mastery Test coming up on Wednesday, here's a study guide:

Parts of Speech Study Guide

Nouns and Pronouns

Nouns and Pronouns are people, places, things, and ideas.

            NOUNS:

                        a/an/the   NOUN           

                        Proper Nouns= Peru, Floyd Dryden, Joe

                        Ideas & Qualities (I have   NOUN            )

            PRONOUNS;

                        can't put "the" in front of it (she, he, they, it, everyone…)

Verbs

ACTION VERBS- action, you can DO it

LINKING VERBS- in describing sentences, linking verbs link the subject to the description, state-of-being verbs

            (SUBJECT   linking VERB            DESCRIPTION)

            (common linking verbs: is, am, are, were, was, be, being, been)

HELPING VERBS- make a verb phrase (Is the following word a verb?  Is the word part of a verb phrase?

             I could run.

            You did run.

            She may run.

            Tom might be sad.

            The rabbit could be happy.

            I am running.

            I am being silly.

            I have walked.

            He does walk.

Adjectives

Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns (which noun/pronoun, what kind of noun/pronoun, how many nouns/pronouns)

Adverbs

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbs (where the verb happens, when the verb happens, how the verb happens, how often the verb happens)

(HOW adjective-y or adverb-y)

Prepositions

Start a PHRASE that adds information

Try putting the word in one of these blanks:

                                     the log   or                                 dinner

Examples of Prepositions: above, about, before, behind, during, over, under, up, down, with, to, through, on…

Conjunctions

Conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses

            FANBOYS: for, and, neither/nor, but/because, or, yet, so

Interjections

Interjections express a feeling, say yes or no, indicate a hesitation, or call attention with a single word (Oh! Hey! Yes.  Wow!  Ouch…)