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Magic Lens

Magic Lens. What is grammar?. A way of thinking about language. What are the 4 levels of Analysis?. Level 1: Parts of speech Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Phrases Level 4: Clauses. How many parts of speech are there?. 8. What are they? Level 1. Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs

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Magic Lens

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  1. Magic Lens

  2. What is grammar? A way of thinking about language.

  3. What are the 4 levels of Analysis? Level 1: Parts of speech Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Phrases Level 4: Clauses

  4. How many parts of speech are there? 8

  5. What are they?Level 1 Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions Interjections

  6. What is a noun? The name of a person, place, thing, or idea

  7. What is a pronoun? A word that takes the place of a noun.

  8. Pronoun example Pronouns are quick little words we say, when we don ’t want to say a whole long noun. Instead of saying Robert Louis Stevenson (whew!) we can just say, he.

  9. What is a subject pronoun? Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements

  10. List the subject pronouns you he I she we they it

  11. What is an object pronoun? A pronoun used as direct or indirect objects, and objects of prepositions

  12. List the object pronouns her me you him it us them

  13. What is an adjective? A word that modifies a noun or pronoun. blue beautiful big cute

  14. What is an article? a an the

  15. VERBS A word that shows action, being, or links a subject to its subject complement

  16. Action Verbs • Most verbs show ACTION. • They say the noun or pronoun is DOING something. Roberto paddled. He paddled.

  17. Linking Verbs But not all verbs are action verbs. Some verbs are LINKING verbs. A linking verb is like IS. It says the subject IS something. Quackers IS a duck. IS links duck to Quackers.

  18. Adverbs Modifies a verb, adjective or other adverbs Usually ends in –ly Describes how, how often, when and where. EXAMPLES: quickly, happily, noisily The baby cried noisily. How did the baby cry? It cried noisily.

  19. Conjunction A word that joins two words or two groups of words

  20. Coordinating Conjunctions and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

  21. Correlative Conjunctions either. . . or neither. . . nor not only. . . but also

  22. Preposition Prepositions show POSITION! Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the sentence

  23. Examples In the tent….Under the tent….Around the tent…..Beside the tent……On the tent……Beneath the tent……

  24. Interjection Yikes! Shows emotion but has no grammatical function Wow! Hey! Cool!

  25. Let’s try it out…..Label these sentences The brown dog is Bubba. He went under the house.

  26. The brown dog is Bubba. adj adj noun verb: linking noun

  27. He went under the house. pronoun verb:action prep adj noun Now you write a sentence and have your neighbor label it.

  28. Name the second level of Analysis? Level 1: Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Level 4:

  29. How many parts of a sentence are there? 2

  30. What are they?Level 2 Subject 2. Predicate

  31. Now add the 2nd Level of Analysis The brown dog is Bubba. adj adj noun verb: linking noun

  32. 2nd Level of Analysis The brown dog is Bubba. adj adj noun verb: linking noun Complete PREDICATE Complete SUBJECT

  33. He went under the house. Complete Subject Complete Predicate pronoun verb:action prep adj noun

  34. Now try some on your own. Write 2 sentences and have your neighbor diagram the2 levels of Analysis.

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