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Module 2: Parts of Speech Flashcards

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What are the Eight Parts of Speech?

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noun, pronoun, verb, conjunction, adverb, adjective, preposition, interjection

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What is a noun?

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A word used to describe:

  1. Person (teacher, Albert Pujols, woman, brother)
  2. Places (valley, Los Angeles, solar system, suburb)
  3. Things (piano, truck, pyramid, Eiffel Tower, bird)
  4. Ideas (happiness, bravery, honesty, health, anger)
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What is a compound noun?

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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

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What is a common noun?

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A group of persons, places, things, or ideas.

exp/ scientist, mountain, magazine, holiday, short story, team

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What is a proper noun?

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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

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What is a concrete noun?

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Things you can see or touch.

Exp/ apple, dog, fork, book, computer

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What is an abstract noun?

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An idea, quality, action, or feeling.

Exp/ bravery, wickedness, goodness, independence

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What is a collective noun?

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A group of persons or things.

Exp/ crowd, congress, public, herd, United States

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Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.

HUMOR

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Abstract

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Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.

ARMY

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Collective

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Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.

TOWEL

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Concrete

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Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.

FLOCK

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Collective

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Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.

PHOTOGRAPH

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Concrete

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Classify common noun as concrete, collective, or abstract.

SORROW

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Abstract

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What is an adjective?

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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.

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What is a proper adjective?

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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

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What is a descriptive adjective?

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Tells us:

  1. What Kind
    Exp/ “curly” hair, “narrow” path, “fresh” fruit, “heavy” rain
  2. Which One
    Exp/ “these” records, “first” row, “other” artists, “back” door
  3. How Much or How Many
    Exp/ “twelve” birds, “much” help, “less” time, “some” marbles
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The most frequently used adjectives are called…

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“Articles” … which are:

  1. “A” which is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound.
    Exp/ How is “a” frog different from “a” toad?
  2. “An” is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound.
    Exp/ “An” artist displayed “an” example of her work.
  3. “The” when noun refers to someone or something in particular.
    Exp/ “The” coat of “the” chair is mine.
19
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Articles are also called…

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Limiting adjectives

20
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Form a proper adjective from each proper noun

Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rican food

21
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Form a proper adjective from each proper noun

France

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French actor

22
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Form a proper adjective from each proper noun

Rome

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Roman Solder

23
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Form a proper adjective from each proper noun

Russia

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Russian doll

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What is a pronoun?

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A word used in place of one noun or more than one noun.

Exp/ Brian, do you have my ticket to the play?

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What are Personal Pronouns?

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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

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What are Reflective Pronouns?

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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.

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What are Indefinite Pronouns?

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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

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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

Alicia carried her umbrella to school.

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her is a personal pronoun.

29
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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

Both worked hard.

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Both is an indefinite pronoun.

30
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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

Take care of yourself.

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Yourself is a reflective pronoun.

31
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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

We finally moved to another apartment.

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another is an indefinite pronoun.

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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

To keep ourselves warm, we sat around the fire.

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ourselves is a reflexive pronoun

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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

They cooked chicken at yesterday’s party.

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They is a personal pronoun

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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

I swear I won’t tell anyone this secret.

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anyone is an indefinite pronoun

35
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What type of pronoun (personal, reflective, indefinite)?

Maybe I didn’t express myself very well.

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myself is a reflective pronoun

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What is a Possessive Pronoun?

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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!

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The word that a pronoun stands in for is called the pronoun’s …

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Antecedent

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A demonstrative pronoun …

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identifies something or someone.

Exp/ This is my chair.

Exp/ These are her clothes.

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A relative pronoun …

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introduces a subordinate clause

Exp/ Is this the book that describes the first Thanksgiving?
{that introduces the subordinate clause describes the first Thanksgiving}

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