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The 8 parts of speech are an
important first step towards mastery of English =
Grammar
because they allow you to understand the building blocks of =
sentences. They allow you to talk about =
what a
sentence does and does not contain.
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n:
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<=
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lace,
Thing, or Concept
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•I worked on school work this week.
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Work
and week are the nouns in this sentence. It is tempting=
to
label school a noun, but in this sentence, school is not
a thing but description for a type of work.
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•The movi=
e
begins with loud explosion.
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•The woma=
n
on the poster was looking at <=
span
style=3D'position:absolute;top:50.0%;left:3.76%;width:84.93%;height:48.21%=
'>the faces of the =
people
she saw.
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Movie
is a thing as is explosion. =
Both are
the nouns in this first sentence
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Woman,
poster, faces and people are all nouns in this sentence.
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<=
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style=3D'font-size:88%'>•I, He/ She/ It, They, We, You
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•Wendy (noun) worked on school work this week.
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•She (pronoun) work=
ed on
school work this week.
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In the
second sentence, she has replaced Wendy.
She
stands in for Wendy in the second sentence.
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In
the first sentence, Wendy is a noun.
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<=
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bought his car at an auction.
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•That is <=
span
style=3D'color:#FFFF99'>their only choice because he has them
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In
the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the pe=
ople
who have the choice. Them ag=
ain
refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving
them the choice.
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In
the first sentence, I is a pronoun that stands in =
for
whomever is speaking. His is=
a
stand in for whomever owns the car.
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or
describes a noun
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•Wendy worked on school (adjective) work this (adjective) week.
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School tells us what kind of work
and this tells us which week.&n=
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Both of these are adjectives because they giv=
e us
the type of noun. They des=
cribe
the noun.
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• The<=
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store was left on.
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• Tenn=
is
courts are good.
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•Can might=
must
may should will are all helping verbs.
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•I was very happy when I woke up this morning.
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