HONORS ENGLISH I Parts of Speech….A QUICK Review

EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH  The following (silly) sentence contains ALL eight parts of speech. See if you can correctly label each word with the correct part of speech: But gosh, you are really in terrible trouble!  Eight parts of speech:  Noun  Adjective  Verb  Adverb  Preposition  Conjunction  Interjection

AND THE CORRECT ANSWER IS…  But (conjunction)  gosh (interjection)  you (pronoun)  are (verb)  really (adverb)  in (preposition)  terrible (adjective)  trouble (noun) How did you do??

NOUN  a person, place, thing, or idea  common noun—starts with a lowercase letter; does not refer to one specific type  city  girl  religion  proper noun—starts with a capital letter; refers to one specific type  Memphis  Molly  Methodist

ADJECTIVE  describes a noun  can come before or after the noun  pink sweater  The sweater is pink.

VERB  an action word; tells you what’s going on  She sells seashells.  transitive verbs  need an object to make sense  Henry raises llamas.  intransitive verbs  make sense without an object  Flowers bloom.

ADVERB  describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb  He snorted loudly.  describing a verb  He is very loud.  describing an adjective  He snorted very loudly.  describing an adverb

PREPOSITION  positions or situates words in relation to one another  usually comes before a noun or pronoun  My cousin is from Philly.  Most used prepositions:  about, above, across, after, against, ahead of, along, among, around, as, at, away from, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, by, down, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, of, off, on, onto, out, out of, outside, over, past, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, until, up, upon, with, within, without  (Choose a few common prepositions to write down.)

CONJUNCTION  a connecting word  found at the “junction” where words/phrases/clauses/sentences are joined  Most familiar conjunctions:  and, but, or  And it’s fine to start a sentence with one.  But not too often.  Or you’ll overdo it.  And definitely do not do it on the OGT!

INTERJECTION  a word or words expressing a sudden rush of feeling  My word!  Help!  Wow!  Oh, no!

 Information in this PowerPoint has been borrowed from O’Conner, Patricia T. Woe Is I. New York: Riverhead Books, Print.