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This educational overview covers the basic parts of speech crucial for sentence construction. It defines each part, including nouns (people, places, things, or ideas), pronouns (words substituting nouns), adjectives (describing nouns or pronouns), verbs (action or state of being), adverbs (modifying verbs, adjectives, or adverbs), conjunctions (joining words/clauses), and prepositions (linking nouns to other sentence parts). Additionally, it explains clauses, including independent and dependent clauses, illustrating how they form complete thoughts.
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Grammar Day 1 Parts of Speech Review Clauses
Basic Parts of Speech • Noun – Person, Place, Thing, or Idea • Mrs. Bannecker, Parkway North, desk, happiness • Pronoun – A word that takes the place of a noun • She, he, it, him, her • Articles – A, an, the; these proceed a noun in a sentence. • Adjectives – A word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun. • We lived in a red brick house.
Basic Parts of Speech, cont. • Verbs – An action or a state of being • Paul rides the bus every day. • Paul was an avid reader. • Adverbs – A word that modifies, or further describes, a verb, an adjective, or another adverb • He waved wildly to get her attention. • The shirt he wore to the party was extremely bright. • Conjunctions – A word that joins two or more words, phrases, or clauses. • For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so • Prepositions – Connects a noun or pronoun to another part of the sentence • Across, to, of, from, in, into, between, behind, with, within, without
Clauses • All sentences must contain a subject (doer of an action), a verb, and a complete thought (Independent Clause). • Clause: A group of related words containing a subject and a verb • Dependent Clause: A clause that needs an independent clause to complete its meaning • When my friends and I went to the mall. • Independent Clause: A clause that can stand alone as a complete thought • We spent a lot of money.
