5. Parts of Speech - Uses
Nouns – Subject / Direct Object / Indirect Object / Subject or
Object Complement / Object of Preposition
Pronouns – Subject / Direct Object / Indirect Object / Subject or
Object Complement / Object of Preposition
Adjectives – Modifying Noun or Pronoun/ Subject Complement /
Object Complement
Verbs – Predicate
Adverbs – Modifying Verb/ Modifying Adjective / Modifying
Adverb / Modifying Passages
Prepositions – Introducing Prepositional Phrases
Conjunctions – Coordinating: Joining Words, Phrases or
Clauses of Equal Rank / Subordinating: Joining Clauses
Interjections – Showing Emotion
6. Phrases, Clauses and Sentences
• A phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a
single word) that form a constituent and so
function as a single unit in the syntax of a
sentence.
• A clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can
express a complete proposition.
• A sentence is a grammatical unit expressing an
independent statement , question, request, etc,
often preceded and followed in speech by pauses.
7. Phrases
• A phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a
single word) that form a constituent and so
function as a single unit in the syntax of a
sentence.
Noun The title of the course that
Verb the beautiful young girl was
Adjective looking for at school
Adverb yesterday morning was
Preposition Woodland Ecology.
8. Clauses
• A clause is the smallest grammatical unit that
can express a complete proposition.
INDEPENDENT x DEPENDENT
Noun: I don’t know who wrote it.
Adjective: She’s the girl who sent him
that weird e-mail.
Adverb: The package arrived before
Mark had the chance to leave.
9. Sentences
• A sentence is a grammatical unit expressing an
independent statement , question, request, etc,
often preceded and followed in speech by pauses.
4
_____ Washington died before Lincoln
1. Simple was born, so these two famous
2. Compound citizens never met each other.
3. Complex 2
_____ Washington died in 1799, and
4. Compound- Lincoln was born in 1809.
complex 3
_____ Washington died before Lincoln
was born.
1
_____ Washington was the first U.S.
president.
10. Sentences
1) A simple sentence...
... has one independent clause.
2) A compound sentence...
... contains two independent clauses.
3) A complex sentence...
... has one independent clause and at least one
dependent clause.
4) A compound-complex sentence...
... contains two independent clauses and at
least one dependent clause.