Parts of Speech:

1. Parts of Speech: The Building Blocks of Language

2. There are SIX key parts of speech.

3. Simple reality: nouns + verbs

4. Descriptive reality: adjectives + adverbs

5. Connective reality: conjunctions + prepositions

6. Simple reality Nouns: • concrete nouns • abstract nouns • proper nouns • pronouns -things you can touch or see -ideas & emotions -names of people, places, things -in place of the noun

7. Nouns Test: imagination Shaq it ant clock music I Glendale jello happiness Saddam they glass regret key alaska

8. Simple reality Verbs: • action verbs • linking verbs • helping verbs -verbs that show action -verbs that link to description -verbs that ‘help’ other verbs

9. Action Verbs : voted. laughs. smokes. stopped. ended. Congress The clown Melissa We The movie

10. Linking verbs: Congress The clown Melissa We The movie is divided. was angry. seems sad. become old. looks good. . . .

11. Helping verbs: may vote. might sing. can try. would forget. could start. . angry. Congress The clown Melissa We The movie . lazy. .

12. Verbs Test: I might change my mind. Hurricane Sue seemed strong. The fireman rescued the kitten.

13. Verbs Test: 1. Diana seems happier since she broke up with Dan. 2. After the earthquake, the bridge collapsed. 3. During the dog show, the poodle appeared confident. 4. I might skip class today if I still have a headache. 5. Barry broke his ankle when he slid into second base. 6. With $5,000 dollars in the bank, we can afford a trip. 7. During Nancy’s speech, the class became restless. 8. Unfortunately, my grandmother did forget her medicine. 9. The cruise ship sank in the waters off Puerto Rico. 10. When I graduate from college, I will party for two days. happier confident. skip afford restless. forget party

14. Descriptive reality Adjectives: Add to the noun red tall scary carmandream

15. Descriptive reality Adverbs: Add to the verb run think sleep quickly carefully comfortably

16. Adjectives & Adverbs My sister took the sick dog to the vet. I ran backwards at football practice. The nurse put a new bandage on my leg. The tower in Pisa leans more each year.

17. Adjectives & Adverbs Test: 1. For years, the picture hung crooked on the wall. 2. My cousin laughed out loud when I tripped. 3. The man was arrested for using a stolen credit card. 4. The purple stain ruined my favorite shirt. 5. The doctor asked me to cough again. 6. Hector spoke softly on his cell phone. 7. Bad weather prevented us from going to the beach. 8. The hiker encountered a wild pig in the woods. 9. My dog barks aggressively at strangers. 10. The cheerleaders ordered new uniforms. hung laughed credit card. stain cough spoke weather pig barks uniforms.

18. Connective reality Conjunctions: to joinwith and / or but / yet for / so nor

19. Conjunctions: food right poor defeated neither love rejected bleeding and water or wrong but happy yet optimistic nor money so angry (=therefore) for wounded (=because)

20. Prepositions: in, on, at, to, of, by, for, with, from above, across, after, against, along, around, among below, beside, behind, beneath, between, beyond inside, outside, into, onto, under, over, through, until

21. Prepositions: Your wallet is in. My car is parked beside. I will meet you at. in my pocket. beside the house. at six o’clock.

22. Connective reality Prepositions: in under beside around at after the garden the umbrellas the parking space six o’clock in the morning daybreak the bell rings

23. Prepositions Test: 1. I took my dog on a walk. 2. The fire truck stopped behind the burning car. 3. Ana left her homework in her backpack. 4. The company must pay its debt before noon. 5. My father got a job at the L.A. zoo.