1.2 Parts of Speech

A noun names a person, place, or thing.

Common nouns name anyone of a class of person, place, or thing.

Proper nouns name a specific person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are never capitalized.

Plural Nouns show ownership.

Verbs express action, condition, or state of being

Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns.

A pronoun gets its meaning from the noun it stands for. The nouns is called the antecedent.

Conjunctions connect words or groups or words.

Interjections show strong emotions and are usually set off with an exclamation point or a comma.

All adverbs are formed by adding -ly to an adjective.

Proper adjectives are formed from [ common nouns, proper nouns].

The three articles are a, an, and [the, then].

Corrleative conjunctions link similar words or word groups, but they are always used

[ in pairs, one at a time].

Collective nouns [name groups, show ownership]

[Yours, Herself] is a possessive pronoun.

[Helping verbs, Linking verbs] join the subject and the predicate.

Helping verbs, which are added to another verb to make the meaning cleare, can include any form of [to be, to see].

The outside of the boat needs scraping.

You should scrape the boat without outside help.

Let's sit outside and laugh at you as you work in the blazing sun.

The ambulance is parked outside the yard, next to the beehive.

The poilitician repented of his past mistakes.

Turn right past the store with the neon sign in the window.

Did you hear that song before ?

The remark went right through one ear and out the other.