1. IDENTIFY THE 8 PARTS-OF-SPEECH
NOUNS
PRONOUNS
ADJECTIVES
VERBS
ADVERBS
PREPOSITIONS
CONJUNCTIONS
INTERJECTIONS

2. Identify all of the nouns in the following sentence:
The lively team mascot of the Kansas City Chiefs, a professional football team, tackled the obnoxious fan who ran onto the field during the game.

3. NOUNS What is a noun? A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What are the two main types of nouns?
proper nouns and common nouns

4. Common Nouns What is a common noun?
A common noun is a general word that names a person, place, thing, or idea
Common nouns are not capitalized.
Examples: desk, chair, pen, paper

5. PROPER NOUNS What is a proper noun?
A proper noun is a word that names a specific person, place, thing or idea.
Proper nouns are always capitalized
Examples: Mr. Vezina, North Haven High School, Alicia, Austin

6. CONCRETE & ABSTRACT NOUNS
Nouns can also be concrete or abstract.
What is a concrete noun?
A concrete noun names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses
Examples: water, Mr. Vezina, car, island, gas
What is an abstract noun?
An abstract noun names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.
Examples: happiness, love, courage, faith, freedom

7. CONCRETE/ABSTRACT NOUNS
Underline all of the concrete nouns, and circle all of the abstract nouns.
fog, enthusiasm, joy, milk, lightning, anger,
ambition, barrel, love, sky, candy, dirt, fear

8. COMPOUND NOUNS What is a compound noun?
A compound noun consists of two or more words used together as a single noun.
The parts of a compound noun may be written as one word:
Examples: newspaper, footprint
The parts of a compound noun may also be written as two or more words:
Examples: high school, League of Nations
The parts of a compound noun may also be written as a hyphenated word:
Examples: great-grandmother, left-hander, vice-president

9. Examples:
The Boston Red Sox clinched the American League East Division Title as a result of their win on Friday night and the loss by the New York Yankees.
The New York Mets failed to make a playoff spot, and, as a result, most of the players will be fly-fishing this week.

10. PRONOUNS What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
Example:
The class is hungry. They will soon be going to lunch.
What is the pronoun?
they
What noun is being replaced by the pronoun?
class (word that gives meaning to the pronoun they)
The word that a pronoun stands for or refers to is called the antecedent of the pronoun.
The pronoun may appear in the same sentence as its antecedent or in a nearby sentence.

11. PERSONAL PRONOUNS
A personal pronoun refers to the one speaking (first person), the one spoken to (second person), or the one spoken about (third person).
What are the first person pronouns?
I, me, mine, we, us, our, ours
What are the second person pronouns?
you, your, yours
What are the third person pronouns?
He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs

12. OTHER TYPES OF PRONOUNS
A reflexive pronoun refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement or as an object of a preposition.
An intensive pronoun emphasizes its antecedent and has no grammatical function.
Reflexive and intensive pronouns- PLEASE MEMORIZE!
myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves
Examples:
I [personal] consider myself [reflexive] fortunate to have such good friends.
They [personal] made the costumes themselves [intensive].

13. OTHER TYPES OF PRONOUNS
A demonstrative pronoun is used to point out a specific person, place, thing, or idea.
(this, that, these, those)
Example: That is a picture of my family.
An interrogative pronoun introduces a question.
(who, whom, which, what, whose)
Example: Which type of pie do you prefer?
A relative pronoun introduces a subordinate clause.
(that, which, who, whom, whose)
Example: The movie that you saw is terrible.

14. OTHER TYPES OF PRONOUNS
An indefinite pronoun refers to one or more persons, places, things, or ideas that may or may not be specifically named.
all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both
each, either, everyone, everything, few, many, more
most, much, neither, nobody, none, no one, nothing
one, other, several, some, somebody, something, such
Is anyone home?
Most of the students were half asleep this morning.

15. ADJECTIVES An adjective is . . .
a word used to describe or modify a noun or pronoun. (it makes the meaning more definite)
Adjectives tell . . .
what kind (green leaves, slow bus),
which one (second book, first one), or
how many (forty people, three tacos).
A, an, and the are the most commonly used adjectives. These three adjectives are also called what?
Articles (a, an- indefinite articles) (the- definite article)

16. PRONOUNS & NOUNS USED AS ADJECTIVES
Some words may be used as either pronouns or adjectives.
When used as pronouns, these words take the place of nouns.
Examples:
Take this.
Neither is home.
When used as adjectives, they modify or give more information about nouns.
Use this brush.
Neither person is home.
Some words may be used as either nouns or adjectives.
Examples: autumn and water are common nouns
autumn leaves and water safety- they are now adjectives
Examples: New York and Navajo are proper nouns
New York bank and Navajo blanket- they are now adjectives