parts of speech Flashcards
Name the eight parts of speech
Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, interjections, prepositions, and conjunctions
nouns
A person, place, thing or idea.
pronouns and types
words that function like a noun
subject
object
possessive adj
possessive pro
reflexive
Regular and irregular Nouns
Plural
Regular: when you add an -s to make it plural
irregular: when you have to add more letters to make it plural
ex : dogs leaf= leaves
Irregular nouns ending in -F
you change it to -ves so like leaf = leaves
Irregular nouns- Child plural
Chidren
Base irregular nouns that don’t change depending on how many
Fish, bison, sheep and stay the same both sing and plural
Mutant EEEE noun plurals
Foot, tooth, woman, man, goose, mouse, and louse
feet, teeth, women, men, geese, mice, and lice
Nouns that are plural and change word by any ways and are foreign
Foreign plurals
Common and proper nouns
Common nouns : general, and not specific
proper nouns: specific very
example (city and Chicago)
concrete and abstract nouns
concrete nouns: they are physical (humans ect you can touch them_
abstract : they are not phyiscal ( emotions, ideas ect)
ex: taco and sadness
Possessive nouns
Show ownership and you add -‘s
Pronoun
A word that takes place in for a noun/ other words
Personal pronouns and examples
First(me), second (you), third person(another person) - me, you, I , she and can be sing and plural
Possessive pronouns
Having stuff and can have two ways of usage one is adj and one is pronoun
adj add to the noun
while the pro one is its own noun basically
Reflexive pronouns
The selfs and are used when the subject and object are the same now using this with other people/compounds you can remove the other person and try the pronouns to see if its fits
Relative pronouns
They link dependent and independent, with the words who, whom, whose(people), that (things) and which
which and that
which is -, or no and that no comma
who/whom
whom is subject and who is object
subject and object
subject is the noun(doing something) and object is what is being done/ done to
indefinite pronouns
their unclear , any, anybody, everyone, noone, nobody, each and both subjects and objects
plural possessive
To show many things or people like cat’s and their ownership cats’
