"There is no education like adversity.

"
Disraeli, Endymion

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Spring 2002
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Purpose of presentation:
This presentation provides a very basic
introduction to the concept of parts of
speech in language. Actually, the study
of parts of speech can be quite
complicated and involved, but the
purpose of this presentation is to give the
students a working vocabulary and a way
to improve their grasp of grammar.
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Spring 2002
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In the English language . . .

There are nine parts of speech . . .
Nouns
Verbs
It is important to
understand that every word
Pronouns
in a sentence has a job to
Adjectives
do, a role in the sentence.
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Articles/determiners
Prepositions
Interjections
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Noun:person, place,thing or
quality
Person: Mr. Garcia likes to eat spinach.
Place: Mission is an old town.
Thing: To cook you need a couple of pots.
Quality: Honesty is a great value to possess.
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Verb: shows action or state of

being
Action: He was running through the
forest.
State of being: He was sad that
particular morning.

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Pronoun: takes the place of a

noun
Guillermo was studying for the mid-term exam
when he realized that it was three oclock in the
morning.
Her
She
Him
Her
It
They
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Adjective: describes a noun

The beautiful woman only wanted a
couple of pairs of shoes.
The rainy day made us even sadder.

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Adverb: describes a verb

The little girl walked happily through the
park.
The orphan hungrily ate the hot stew.

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Adverb: describes an adjective

Mr Howard was extremely tired when he
got home.
The pupils were very excited about the
excursion.

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Adverb: describes an adverb

Mr Brown speaks Chinese quite well.

The teacher talks extremely fast.

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Most adverbs are formed from

adjective
Adjective
Smooth
Patient
Heavy
Merry
Simple
Gentle
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Adverbs
Smoothly
Patiently
Heavily
Merrily
Simply
Gently
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Conjunctions: words that join

words, phrases or sentences
Manuel and Marisol loved to cook.
You will go to school, or you will fail.
I am happy because I just received my check.
It has been cloudy since the morning.
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Article: divided into two types which are

indefinite (A, An) and definite (The)

A is used before a singular countable

noun that begins with a consonant sound.
Ex: Mary bought a doll for her little
sister.
An is used before a singular countable
noun that begins with a vowel sound or a
silent h.
Ex: John gave me an orange.
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The is a definite article

a)

The is used before the names of

oceans, rivers and special buildings.
Ex: There are many islands in the Pacific
Ocean.
b) We use the when there is only one
thing of its kind.
Ex: The earth moves round the sun.
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c) To refer to the person or

thing already mentioned.
Ex: My father was talking to a man. The
man is our neighbour.
I borrowed a book from Fiza. The book is
colourful.

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d) Before a superlative
The shortest man in the world lives in
Europe.
Nadia is the tallest girl in class.

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Determiners
a)used with singular countable nouns.
example: Each student gets a book.
Each
One
This
That
Every
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b) Used with plural countable

nouns
A lot of
A few
Several
Many
Some
These
Those
All
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Those cars are new.

Many animals are infected.
The university bought many
tables and chairs.

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c) Used with uncountable

nouns.
A lot of
A little some
This
That
All
Much

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People throw out a

lot of garbage
everyday.
Susila has a little
money left in her
bank account.
Dont put too much
salt in your curry.
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Preposition: A word or phrase that shows the

relationship between the noun that it takes as an object
and some other word in the sentence.

The cat was on the table.

The dog was under the table.
These are some common prepositions:
For
on to up
at under
above
toward
With
between in behind
From upon into off
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Interjections: expressive words

Wow, you knocked that ball out of the
park.
Oh, you really need to take care of
yourself.
Huh, what did you say?
Ah, now I understand the problem.

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Identify each word in the

following sentence
The beautiful queen was walking slowly
on the cool lawn, and she was reading a
long book about knights and kings which
she enjoyed.

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The beautiful queen was walking slowly

article

adjective

noun

verb

verb

adverb

on the cool lawn, and she was reading a

preposition

article adjective

noun

conjunction

pronoun

verb

verb

article

long book about knights and kings which

adjective

noun

preposition

noun

conjunction

noun

preposition

she enjoyed.

Pronoun

verb

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Assignment: Identify parts of

speech
1. The queen knew that she would be the only pretty
woman at the party.
2. The king did not know if he was going to make the
cake, and he was afraid to tell the queen.
3. The thin waitress told the customers that they
desperately needed to go on a diet.
4. I ran many miles every day, and I couldnt lose a
pound.
5. This quiz was a piece of cake.
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