1 Parts of Speech One good way to begin learning about words is to look at the eight kinds of words in English, known as the parts of speech

2 Parts of Speech nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs PrepositionsConjunctions Interjections

3 Nouns Are naming words Help people identify what they are talking or thinking about. Grandfather, ice cream, loyalty, and Ohio are all nouns. A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.

4 Nouns A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.People, Places, and Things

5 Nouns People Places Things

6 Nouns People farmer pilot Bostonians Mrs. Wilson

7 Nouns Places Chicago theater waiting room Madison Square Garden

8 Living and Nonliving Things That You Can Seeflowers elephant ballpoint pen skyscraper poem goldfish Things

9 Ideas and Things That You Cannot Usually Seesuccess happiness anger revolution fairness health Things

10 Classifying Nouns People Places Things

11 Nouns that names groups of individual people or thingsCollective Nouns Nouns that names groups of individual people or things

12 Collective Nouns team class committee crowd group audience

13 Compound Nouns A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more words

14 TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNSSeparate Words Hyphenated Words Combined Words

15 TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNSSeparate Words high school chief justice Empire State Building

16 TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNSHyphenated Words cure-all cha-cha mother-in-law

17 Recognizing Compound NounsThere is no way their high school can beat ours this year. Yesterday in homeroom, Bob and I discussed sports in our junior high school. We both agreed that our victory in volleyball was the highlight of the year.

18 Common and Proper NounsA common noun names any one of a class of people, places, or things. A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing.

19 Common Nouns author village story

20 Proper Nouns Washington Irving Tarrytown Nile

21 Proper Nouns Write each proper noun correctly with capitals.car, convertible, oldsmobile state, district, dade county lake erie, ocean, river magazine, bible, pamphlet

22 Parts of Speech Pronouns nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs PrepositionsConjunctions Interjections

23 Pronouns Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. They are generally used when it would not make sense to repeat a noun over and over again.

24 Pronouns Aunt Jenny was late because Aunt Jenny missed Aunt Jenny’s train. Aunt Jenny was late because she missed her train.

25 Pronouns A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or of a group of words acting as a noun. My father opened his present first. A pronoun can also take the place of a noun used in an earlier sentence. My father opened his present first. He felt he couldn’t wait any longer.

26 Antecedents of PronounsA pronoun is closely related to the noun it replaces. The noun that the pronoun takes the place of has a special name. It is called the antecedent. The Latin prefix ante means “before,” and most antecedents do come before the pronouns that take their place. My father opened his present first. He felt he couldn’t wait any longer. The antecedent is father

27 Personal Pronouns Personal pronouns refer to The person speakingThe person spoken to The person, place, or thing spoken about Depending on whom or what a personal pronoun refers to, it is called a first-person, second-person, or third-person pronoun.

28 Personal Pronouns She, her, hers their, theirs It, its Singular PluralFirst Person I, me, my, mine we, us, our, ours Second person you, your, yours you, your, yours Third person he, him, his, they, them, She, her, hers their, theirs It, its

29 Four Special Kinds of PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

30 Four Special Kinds of PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

31 Demonstrative PronounsSingular - this , that Plural – these, those A demonstrative pronoun can come before or after its antecedent Before: This is the book I chose Those are my new friends. After: Of all my stamps, these are the most valuable.

32 Four Special Kinds of PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

33 Relative Pronouns Relative pronouns are connecting wordsThere are five relative pronouns that, which, who, whom, whose A relative pronoun begins a subordinate clause and connects it to another idea in the same sentence.

34 Four Special Kinds of PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

35 Interrogative PronounsAn interrogative pronoun is used to begin a question. All together there are five interrogative pronouns. What, which, who, whom, whose

36 Four Special Kinds of PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

37 Indefinite Pronouns Indefinite pronouns refer to people, places, or things, often without specifying which ones. Singular: another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, little, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one other, somebody, someone, something

38 Indefinite Pronouns Plural: both, few, many, others, several Singular or Plural: all, any, more, most, none, some

39 Indefinite Pronouns WITHOUT ANTECEDENTS: Anyone can volunteer to serve hot dogs at the game. Many cheered when the President arrived. WITH ANTECEDENTS: All of the students volunteered to sell hot dogs at the game. The guests gathered eagerly. Many cheered when he arrived.

40 Four Special Kinds of PronounsDemonstrative Pronouns Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns Indefinite Pronouns

41 That's All Folks