Module 2: Parts of Speech Flashcards
What are the Eight Parts of Speech?
noun, pronoun, verb, conjunction, adverb, adjective, preposition, interjection
What is a noun?
A word used to describe:
- Person (teacher, Albert Pujols, woman, brother)
- Places (valley, Los Angeles, solar system, suburb)
- Things (piano, truck, pyramid, Eiffel Tower, bird)
- Ideas (happiness, bravery, honesty, health, anger)
What is a compound noun?
Two or more words used together as a single noun. Can be written as one word, separate words, or as a hyphenated word.
ONE WORD: birdhouse, fingerprints, Greenland
SEPARATE WORDS: Harry Truman, sea turtle, July 4, 1776, The Hobbit
HYPHENATED WORD: father-in-law, vice-president, thirty-one
What is a common noun?
A group of persons, places, things, or ideas.
exp/ scientist, mountain, magazine, holiday, short story, team
What is a proper noun?
A specific name for a particular person, place, thing, or idea. (always begins with a capital letter)
Exp/ Albert Einstein, Rocky Mountains, Sports Illustrated, Christmas, The Little Engine That Could, St. Louis Cardinals
What is a concrete noun?
Things you can see or touch.
Exp/ apple, dog, fork, book, computer
What is an abstract noun?
An idea, quality, action, or feeling.
Exp/ bravery, wickedness, goodness, independence
What is a collective noun?
A group of persons or things.
Exp/ crowd, congress, public, herd, United States
Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.
HUMOR
Abstract
Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.
ARMY
Collective
Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.
TOWEL
Concrete
Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.
FLOCK
Collective
Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.
PHOTOGRAPH
Concrete
Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.
SORROW
Abstract
What is an adjective?
Word used to “modify” a noun or a pronoun. “Modify” means to describe the word or to make word meaning more definite.
Can come before or after the word it modifies.
Exp/ He has “red” hair.
What is a proper adjective?
A proper adjective is formed from a proper noun and begins with a capital letter.
(Remember a proper noun is a specific name for a particular person, place, thing or idea and always begins with a capital letter. Think Albert Pujols, St. Louis, Christmas.)
Proper Noun | Proper Adjective
Russia | Russian Roulette
France | French literature
Queen Victoria | Victorian furniture
Hawaii | Hawaiian vacation
Asia | Asian food
John F. Kennedy | Kennedy Center
What is a descriptive adjective?
Tells us:
- What Kind
Exp/ “curly” hair, “narrow” path, “fresh” fruit, “heavy” rain - Which One
Exp/ “these” records, “first” row, “other” artists, “back” door - How Much or How Many
Exp/ “twelve” birds, “much” help, “less” time, “some” marbles
The most frequently used adjectives are called…
“Articles” … which are:
- “A” which is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound.
Exp/ How is “a” frog different from “a” toad? - “An” is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound.
Exp/ “An” artist displayed “an” example of her work. - “The” when noun refers to someone or something in particular.
Exp/ “The” coat of “the” chair is mine.
Articles are also called…
Limiting adjectives
Form a proper adjective from each proper noun
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican food
Form a proper adjective from each proper noun
France
French actor
Form a proper adjective from each proper noun
Rome
Roman Solder
Form a proper adjective from each proper noun
Russia
Russian doll
What is a pronoun?
A word used in place of one noun or more than one noun.
Exp/ Brian, do you have my ticket to the play?
What are Personal Pronouns?
A short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person.
Exps/ I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs
What are Reflective Pronouns?
Words ending in -self or -selves that are used when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same.
Exps/ myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves.
What are Indefinite Pronouns?
A pronoun that doesn’t specifically identify what it is referring to.
Exps/ all, another, any, anyone, both, each, everybody, everything, few, many, most, no one, some, several
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
Alicia carried her umbrella to school.
her is a personal pronoun.
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
Both worked hard.
Both is an indefinite pronoun.
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
Take care of yourself.
Yourself is a reflective pronoun.
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
We finally moved to another apartment.
another is an indefinite pronoun.
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
To keep ourselves warm, we sat around the fire.
ourselves is a reflexive pronoun
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
They cooked chicken at yesterday’s party.
They is a personal pronoun
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
I swear I won’t tell anyone this secret.
anyone is an indefinite pronoun
What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?
Maybe I didn’t express myself very well.
myself is a reflective pronoun
What is a Possessive Pronoun?
A Possessive Pronoun is used to show ownership of something.
Exp/ mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs.
Exp/ The new car is ours.
**Important** Similar words are used for personal, reflective, and indefinite. The test here for Possessive Pronoun is showing ownership!
The word that a pronoun stands in for is called the pronoun’s …
Antecedent
A demonstrative pronoun …
identifies something or someone.
Exp/ This is my chair.
Exp/ These are her clothes.
A relative pronoun …
introduces a subordinate clause
Exp/ Is this the book that describes the first Thanksgiving?
{that introduces the subordinate clause describes the first Thanksgiving}
