1. Level One: The Eight Parts of Speech ADVERBS
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ADVERBS

2. A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
ADVERB (adv.)
A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
adv
adv V
adj

3. Adverbs
Please notice that adverbs modify three kinds of words that adjectives do not modify.
Queequeg swam slowly.
Ahab is too tall.
He and she swim well.

4. The Crayola Syndrome
In using modifiers (adj. and adv.), you should ask yourself if you are using too many.
Are you saying, “bright yellowy green” when you mean chartreuse?
Are you writing “light blue sky” when you mean azure?

5. Very, very, very weak
Sometimes a modifier will backfire, especially when it is overused. One example is the adverb very.
Omit the verys, and let the adjective stand out strong and clear.

6. weak Veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery

7. Adverbs in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
In his 1851 novel Moby Dick, about Captain Ahab and the white whale, Herman Melville used adverbs to modify his verbs, giving an expanded sense of action and event. We see adverbs such as ere, diabolically, anomalously, irrevocably, jocularly, fain, aesthetically, vivaciously, and sagaciously.
Do you know all of these adverbs?
Which one do you like best?

8. Level One: The Eight Parts of Speech PREPOSITIONS
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PREPOSITIONS

9. Preposition
A word that shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence. N
prep
adj

10. Preposition
Prepositions show relationships of time (before, during, after), space (in, on, beside, around), and direction (to, from, toward).
In other words, prepositions show where two things are located, compared to each other.

11. Preposition
To use the wrong preposition is to completely alter the meaning of the idea by changing the relationship between things: would you rather there be a thousand-dollar check for you, or a thousand-dollar check from you?
Prepositions are called pre positions because they come at the beginning of a prepositional phrase; they have the PRE position in the phrase: in the boat, on the dock, around Venus.

12. somewhere, over the rainbow
another word in the sentence preposition its object

13. Level One: The Eight Parts of Speech CONJUNCTION
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CONJUNCTION

14. CONJUNCTION (conj.)
A word that joins two words or two groups of words.
Conjunctions conjoin: A conjunction is a word that joins (junct) two words or two groups of words (such as two phrases or clauses) together (con). Hamlet and Ophelia were here or there, but we were and were not.

15. Coordinating Conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions co-ordinate: Coordinating conjunctions join equals; they are conjunctions that coordinate (join two words or groups of words of similar (co) importance).
It is essential that you have the coordinating conjunctions memorized, because you need to know them in order to identify and punctuate compound sentences.

16. Coordinating Conjunctions
and
but or
nor
for so
yet

17. Subordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions subordinate: they join unequals; they are conjunctions that subordinate; they join something of lesser importance to something of greater importance.
Examples: as, since, when, because, and many others.

18. Conjunctions
Think of it this way: In engineering we can draw designs for joining things together, but we can join them in different ways, and for different purposes. For example, we might use a fixed joint, or we might use a hinge. Either option gives us a joint, but they are not the same.

19. Conjunctions
Conjunctions are like this. A coordinating conjunction co-orders what it joins, and a subordinating conjunction sub-orders what it joins.
A good example is the difference between a compound sentence joined by a coordinating conjunction and a complex sentence joined by a subordinating conjunction. In “Dickens had one idea, and his wife had another,” both ideas are important, but in “Dickens went to America when he had the chance,” the second idea helps support the first.
In using conjunctions, it is necessary to use the right one, the one that agrees with the truth of the idea.

20. Correlative Conjunctions
The correlative conjunctions are the multiple-word conjunctions, such as either/or and neither/nor.
Either you or I will arrive.

21. Conjunctive Adverbs
Conjunctive adverbs are conjunctions that act both as adverbs and as conjunctions.
These include words that are commonly used to begin clauses, such as however, furthermore, moreover, nevertheless, accordingly, and therefore.

22. if, as, since, when, because, . . .
memorize
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
if, as, since, when, because, . . .

23. Level One: The Eight Parts of Speech INTERJECTION
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INTERJECTION

24. INTERJECTION
A word that shows emotion but has no grammatical function.
Interjections are the Batman words -- words that fill the pages of the action in comic books.
Examples of interjections are oh, ugh, oof, wow, yes, no, oops.

25. Interjection
All the other parts of speech participate in relationships with other parts of speech Only the interjection stands alone, thrown splat! into the sentence.