Parts of Speech Review

1. Parts of Speech Review CST Review

2. Nouns Names a person, place, thing, or idea. • Singular Noun: names one person, place, thing, or idea. • Plural Noun: names more than one person, place, thing, or idea. • Proper Noun: names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. • Common Noun: names any person, place, thing, or idea.

3. Nouns Continued Names a person, place, thing, or idea. • Concrete: names things that you can recognize with your senses. • Abstract: name ideas, qualities, or feelings. • Collective: gives a single name to a group of individuals. • Compound: nouns that are made up of two or more words. • Possessive: names who or what owns or has something.

4. Nouns Continued Names a person, place, thing, or idea. • Plural: add an –s to the end of the noun. • Singular Possessive: add an –’s to the end of the noun. • Plural Possessive: add an –s’ to the end of the noun. • Difference between a contraction and a possessive: • Katarina’s homework is perfect. (possessive) • Katarina’s preparing for the test. (contraction of Katarina is) • Appositives: a noun placed next to another noun to identify it or add information about it. • My brother, Jeff, will accompany me to the boat. • Appositive Phrase: a group of words that includes an appositive and other words that describe the appositive. • Jeffery Barber, a distinguished geologist, will speak at the Science Club meeting.

5. Identify the underlined word as either: plural, possessive, contraction, or appositive. • Herb, the server, deserved a large tip. • The children laughed at the monkeys in the cage. • The Newmans’ vacation was last month. • Sheila’s on her way to the skating rink.

6. Verbs • A word that names an action and tells what a subject does. • Action verbs: can express physical or mental actions. • Transitive: followed by a direct object. (what? / whom?) • Shawn painted landscapes and portraits. • Intransitive: does not have a direct object. • Shawn painted beautifully. • Linking Verbs: connects the subject of a sentence with a word in the predicate that identifies or describes the subject. • Common Linking Verbs: to be, appear, feel, look, seem, sound, taste, become, grow, remain, smell, stay, turn. • Helping Verbs: helps the main verb tell about an action or make a statement. • The girl iscalling her parents. (is – helping verb / calling – main verb) • Verb Tenses: tells when the action takes place • Past: -ed Present: -s or -es Future: “will” before the verb

7. Find the Verbs (Past, Present, Future) (Transitive / Intransitive) (Underline the helping verb once and the main verb twice) I will ride home Susi drew portraits. She is going to regret not trusting me.

8. Adjectives • A word that provides information about the size, shape, color, texture, feeling, sound, smell, number or condition of a noun or a pronoun. • Predicate Adjective: always follows a linking verb. • Movies are popular throughout Europe and America. • Proper Adjectives: formed from proper nouns (always begin with a capital letter.) • Maria practiced Irish step dancing on Mondays and Italian cooking on Thursdays. • Comparative Adj.: adjectives that compare two things. • Superlative Adj.: adjectives compares more than two things.

9. Adjectives Continued • Demonstrative Adj.: point out something or someone and describes nouns • this, that, these, those • Answers the questions: which one(s)? • Articles: • Definite Articles – the • Indefinite Articles – a / an

10. Find the Adjectives (Which one? that flower) (What kind? red flowers) (How many? two flowers) I like that flower. I like red flowers. I picked two flowers.

11. Adverbs • A word that modifies, or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. • Intensifiers: an adverb that emphasizes an adjective or another adverb • This information is rather new so it won’t be in the encyclopedia. • Comparative Adv.: adverbs that compare two actions. • Superlative Adv.: adverbs compares more than two actions.

12. Find the Adverb (How? quickly) (When? today) (How often? daily) (Where? here) (How much? too) We ate breakfast quickly. I visited the garden today. We weed the garden daily. Plant the vegetables here. It is too hot to work in the garden.