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Parts of Speech
Today we're going to look at parts of speech. If you've ever
been to school, this is a review for you. But I can't talk to you about the
complexities of language until I remind you of the basics.
A noun is a word that is the
name of something. It can be a...
Person
Animal
Place
Thing
Quality
Idea
Action
So... teacher is a noun. That's me; I'm a person. And cat is a noun,
obviously, a cat is an animal. Mexico
is a noun. It's a proper noun, because it's the actual name of a place. Banana is a noun; it's a thing. Excitement is a noun, a quality of
every English student, right? Existentialism
is a noun. It's an idea which you'll find out more about when you read
Camus. And finally, shopping is a
noun. What did you do yesterday? I went shopping.
Did you know that nouns are usually the
first parts of speech that babies use?
So the next important part of speech is
the verb.
Click to go to Merriam-Webster's definition of "verb." |
You
know a verb is an action word, like run or eat. Don't forget to be is also a verb; it expresses a state of being. And have is
also a verb. There's no actual action, like run, but it expresses an occurrence.
So now that we have nouns and verbs, we can
make sentences. All you need for a sentence is two words: a noun and a verb.
Yes, this is a sentence. |
This
is a really short, but perfectly legit sentence:
Now we can pad it out with
some other parts of speech.
You've
got your adjectives, used to describe nouns:
You've
got your adverbs, used to describe verbs :
And
you've got your pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and
articles.
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pronoun |
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preposition |
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conjunction |
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interjection |
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article |
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