1. Parts of the Speech Fourth Grade
English Class
Academia Santa Rosa
Prof. Eddie Ortiz Roman, Ph.D
Principal. Dr. Lorrie Cuevas

2. Article Article: an article is what modifies the noun in the sentence.
There are three types of articles: ( The , A, An )
There are two kinds of articles :
a) Definite article ( The )
b) Indefinite article: ( A , An )
Hint: The article is always in the beginning of the sentence. It is never in the middle of the sentence
Definitions of definite article and indefinite article.
a) A definite article specifies an specific group. It is something
that you could see, you could prove.
Example : The red apple looks delicious.
d.a
So that means the person will be eating only the red apple.
Because e can see and identify the red apple.

3. b) Indefinite article: An indefinite article doesn’t specifies an
a specific group. Because we cant prove who or whom we
are talking about.
Examples:
ex #1 A young boy is wearing white pants and blue shirt.
In this case we don’t know which boy we are referring too.
ex #2 An interesting book was read by the teacher.
In this case we don’t know which book we
are referring too.

4. Nouns -Examples: Mrs. Pruett, Texas, suitcase, and freedom.
- Definition: A word or word group that is used to name a person, place, thing, or an idea.
-Examples: Mrs. Pruett, Texas, suitcase, and freedom.

5. Pronouns A pronoun always substitute the noun in the sentence.
Examples of pronuns are:
I , We , He , She, It , They , his, hers, ours, your, your , us
Examples
a) Tommy is a good boy. We substitute Tommy for “ He ”.
He is a good boy
b) Mary is eating a sandwich. We substitute Mary for “ she ”
She is eating a sandwich.
c) Pedro and Jack are playing ball. We substitute the nouns
They are playing ball.
d) John and I will be seeing a movie. We substitute John and I
We will be seeing a movie
e) John and Sara will be studying in the library with Mary and Pete.
They will be studying in the library with them.

6. Pronouns
- Definition: A word that is used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns. -Examples: I, they, your, our, she, we, them, he, us, him, his, their, them, and its.
He is playing with the train.
They are playing all together.
Is she sleeping in her bed?

7. Personal Pronoun
-Definition: A personal pronoun refers to the one speaking is first person, the one spoken to is second person, or the one being spoken to is third person. -First Person: I, me, my, mine, we, us, ours, our. -Second person: you, yours, your. -Third person: He, him his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them, their, theirs.
Look, I am good at reading!
You click the icon to open the game.
They are playing jump rope.

8. Adjective
-Definition: A word that is used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
Transparent ghost
Old Man
Green Die.
Haunted House

9. Adjectives An adjectives describes the noun in the sentence. Examples:
1) The red car is in the garage.
In this sentence red is describing the car.
What color is the car? “Red ”
The lovely girl is with her mom.
In this case lovely is describing the girl.
How was the girl? “ lovely ”
The yellow submarine is mine.
How was the submarine? “ yellow ”

10. Demonstrative Adjectives and Articles
-Demonstrative Adjective: -Definition: A demonstrative adjective is an adjective modifies a noun or pronoun. -Example: -Did Jenifer draw this one or that one? -Let’s take these sandwiches and those apples on our picnic. -Articles: -Definition: An Indefinite Article is when they refer to any member of a group. -Examples: -A girl won. -The one day sale is on Saturday.

11. Mom helps Jack do his homework.
Verb
-Definition: A verb that is used to express action or a state of being. -Example: Texting, jumping, push, doing.
Mom helps Jack do his homework.
She is exercising.
The boys get on the bus.

12. Linking Verbs A linking verb joins the noun in the sentence.
Examples of Linking are:
a) Be and be is divided in the kinds: ( am is are )
1) We use “ am ” as a first person singular.
example I am a teacher. Am is a linking verb
2) We use “ is ” as a second person singular.
We use “ is ” with He , She , It
He is a teacher. She is a nurse. It is very nice.
3) We use “ are ” as a third person plural. We us are with We They You
Example.
We are very tired today.
You are a very bright student
They are very exciting from the ball game.

13. Linking Verbs The 10 linking Verbs are: be appear seem became smell
sound
grow
look
taste
feel

14. Helping Verbs
-Definition: Helping Verbs help the main verb express action or a state of being. -Examples: can, do, has, might, should, and could.
Hey! You should put the toys in the box.
Please, can you cut the cake now?

15. Adverb
- Definition: A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or adverb. - Examples: There, up, here, down, tomorrow, weekly, later, and early. (Think –ly too.)
The girl is going to ride her bike up the street.
It is going to rain tomorrow and weekly from now on.

16. They are aboard the train.
Preposition
-Definition: A word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word. (Remember the song!) -Examples: Aboard, below, from, since, about, beneath, throughout, concerning, past, and without.
They are aboard the train.
This guy is from history.

17. Conjunction -Definition: A word that joins word or words groups.
Decide whether to stay or go.
Coordinating Conjunctions:
-Examples: And, but, or nor, for yet so.
-Examples: You are supposed to walk on the street or the sidewalk.
Correlative Conjunctions:
-Examples: Both…and, Not only…but also, Whether…or.
-Example: Both Jim and Roberto were standing outside.

18. Interjection
-Definition: A word that expresses emotion. -Definition: An interjection has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence. -Examples: Crap! Wow! Yuck! Yippee! Uh-oh! Well!
YUCK! This is nasty!
WEEE! I’m Swinging!
OWW! This Hurts.