The document discusses the 8 basic parts of speech in the English language: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. It provides examples and definitions for each part of speech. Nouns are names of people, places, things or ideas. Verbs express actions. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. Adjectives describe nouns. Pronouns take the place of nouns. Prepositions show relationships between nouns. Conjunctions join sentences. Interjections express emotions. The document tests the reader's knowledge with example sentences and provides references used to compile the information.

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2. THERE ARE 8 “BUILDING BLOCKS” TO THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
Noun
Verb
Adverb
Adjective
Pronoun
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections

3. 1.Nouns
are NAMES of a person, place,
thing or idea.
We can see if a word is a noun by asking
WHO or WHAT.

4. THERE ARE
DIFFERENT TYPES OF NOUNS, INCLUDING:
1. Concrete things like:
Like KITTEN and a GOLDFISH,
and also a CAR.

5. 2. Abstract ideas or emotions like:
FREEDOM, ANGER and FRIENDSHIP.

6. 3. Or they refer to COMMON things
like a
and a
c
,
air,

7. 4. Or they are PROPPER NOUNS like
NAMES of PEOPLE or PLACES.

8. 2. Pronouns
are short words that
take the place of a Noun.
Pronouns can be:
Subjects : he or she
Objects:
him or her
Possessive: his or hers
Indefinite: nobody or all
Demonstrative:
this or those

9. 3. Verbs
RUN
are “doing” or action words.
Kiss...

10. 4. Adverbs
are descriptive words that tells
us more about a verb, an
adjective or another adverb.
why

11. EG:
Presenting a blue car,
red car and a light
brown car…

12. 5. Adjectives
are descriptive words used to
“modify” or tell more about
Nouns and pronouns…
They tell us more about things and make them
more
INTERESTING
They live in a beautiful house.
Ben is an adorable baby.

13. 6. Prepositions
show a position relationship
between two or more nouns or
pronouns

14. 7. Conjunctions
words that joins sentences together.

15. 8. Interjections
are words that are used in
sentences to express emotion.

16. TEST YOURSELF BY IDENTIFYING
THE PARTS OF SPEECH
IN THESE SENTENCES.
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2)
Alexander’s Macedonians trudged
pugnaciously past the ancient Egyptian
necropolis.
In the age of belligerent megalomania, Pericles
wanted to promote art and literature.

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