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 Prepositions
Conjunctions
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 See
flowers
elephant
ballpoint pen
skyscraper
poem
goldfish
Things

9. Ideas and Things That You Cannot Usually See
success
happiness
anger
revolution
fairness
health
Things

10. Classifying Nouns
People
Places
Things

11. Nouns that names groups of individual people or things
Collective 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 NOUNS
Separate Words
Hyphenated Words
Combined Words

15. TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNS
Separate Words
high school
chief justice
Empire State Building

16. TYPES OF COMPOUND NOUNS
Hyphenated Words
cure-all
cha-cha
mother-in-law

17. Recognizing Compound Nouns
There 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 Nouns
A 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 Prepositions
Conjunctions
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 Pronouns
A 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 speaking
The 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 Plural
First 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 Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns

30. Four Special Kinds of Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns

31. Demonstrative Pronouns
Singular - 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 Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns

33. Relative Pronouns Relative pronouns are connecting words
There 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 Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns

35. Interrogative Pronouns
An 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 Pronouns
Demonstrative 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 Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns

41. That's All Folks