· IV. Parts of Speech
What is Parts of Speech?
- The part of speech indicates how the word functions in meaning as well as grammatically within the sentence.
Four
Major Word Class
- Nouns - Adjectives
- Verbs - Adverbs
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10
Types of Parts of Speech
- Pronouns - Adverbs - Determiners
- Nouns - Prepositions - Verbal
- Adjectives - Conjunctions
- Verbs - Interjections
A.) Pronoun
- substitute for a noun or noun
phrase
- 6 Types of Pronoun:
1.) Interrogative
Pronouns (Who, Whoever, Whosoever, Whomever, What, Whatever,
Whatsoever, Which, Whichever, Whichsoever, When, Where, Why, How)
2.) Demonstrative
Pronouns (That, This, Those, There)
3.) Infinite
Pronouns - has three types and they are Singular, Plural and Both
Singular and Plural Indefinite Pronouns:
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Indefinite
Pronouns are: |
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Singular
Indefinite Pro. |
ENEO and ANES-BOT |
Each, Neither, Either, One, Anybody, Nobody, Everybody, Somebody, Anyone, No one, Everyone, Someone, Anything, Nothing, Everything, Something | |
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Plural
Infinite Pro. |
SMBF |
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Both
Singular and Plural Pro. |
SHAMAN |
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Personal Pronouns are: |
1st Person
POV |
2nd Person
POV |
3rd Person
POV |
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Singular |
Plural |
Singular |
Plural |
Singular |
Plural |
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Nominative Pro. |
I |
We |
You |
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He,
She, It |
They |
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Objective Pro. |
Me |
Us |
You |
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Him, Her, It |
Them |
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Possessive Pro. |
Mine, My |
Our, Ours |
Your |
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His, Hers, Her, It, Its |
Theirs, Their |
5.) Relative
Pronouns – used to add subordinate details (who, whose, whom, which,
that)
6.) Reflexive
Pronouns – referring a previously named noun or pronoun.
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Reflexive
Pronouns are: |
Singular |
Plural |
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1st Persona |
Myself |
Ourselves |
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2nd Persona |
Yourself |
Yourselves |
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3rd Persona |
Himself, Herself, Itself |
Themselves |
B.) Noun
- refers to the name of person, animals,
places, things, events or ideas
- 6 types of Noun:
1.) Common Nouns
– name in general (i.e. boy, day, country)
2.) Proper Nouns
– specific name that begins with an uppercase letter (i.e. Monday, London,
Steven, Africa)
- it has 2 types and they are Concrete
Nouns (can pass on our senses, i.e. dog, building, tree) and Abstract
Nouns (refers to ideas, qualities and conditions, i.e. truth, danger,
time, sisterhood).
3.) Collective
Nouns – group of people or things (i.e. audience, family, government,
team, jury)
4.) Countable
Nouns – nouns that can be counted (i.e. cats, dogs)
5.) Mass Nouns or
Uncountable Nouns – nouns that can’t be counted (i.e. rain, flour,
Earth)
6.) Individual
Nouns – refers to a distinct or indivisible entity
C.) Adjective
- describes only the noun
- can be formed into 3 forms of
Adjectives: Descriptive, Comparative and Superlative (i.e. sweet, sweeter,
sweetest)
- Irregular form of Adjectives (i.e.
bad, worse. Worst)
D.) Verb
- refers to action words and state
of being
- has 3 basic forms of verb: Simple
form of Verbs (structure: base form of verb), Present Participle
form of Verb or -ing form of verb (structure: base form
of verb + -ing) and Past Participle form of Verb or -ed
form of verb (structure: base form of verb + -d or -ed).
- has 3 types of verb: Action Verbs
(expresses action), Helping Verbs (conveys additional information and also
called as “Auxiliary Verbs”) and Linking Verbs (connects subject to a noun or
an adjective and also called as “Copulative Verbs”).
1.)
Action Verbs: 2 types of Action Verbs
- Transitive
Verbs (has direct object and indirect object in the sentence)
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Intransitive Verbs (has an indirect object but has no direct object. May be
followed by an adverb or adverbial phrases)
2.) Helping Verbs: 6
types of Helping Verbs
- Future
H.V. (structure: will/shall + simple form of verb)
- Perfect
H.V (structure: have/had + past participle form of verb or -ed form)
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Progressive H.V (structure: Be-Verbs (am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being)
+ present participle form of verb or -ing form)
- Passive
H.V (structure: Be-Verbs (am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being) + past
participle form of verb or -d or -ed form)
- Emphatics
H.V. (structure: Emphatic Verbs (do, does, did) + simple form of verb)
- Modal H.V.
(structure: Modal Verbs (can, may, might, must, could, would, should, ought to,
used to) + simple forms of verb)
3.) Linking Verbs: 2
types of Linking Verbs
- Be-Verbs
(am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being)
- Sense
Verbs (look, seem, appear, smell, taste, feel, stand, grow, become)
- has 9 tenses of verbs:
(Simple Tenses – used to
express facts and situation that existed in past, present and future)
- Simple Past Tense
(base form of verb + -d or -ed)
- Simple Present
Tense (base form of verb)
- Simple Future
Tense (will/shall + base form of verb)
(Perfect Tenses – used
to express ideas that one event happens before another event)
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- Past Perfect Tense (had +
past participle form of verb)
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- Present Perfect Tense
(has/have + past participle form of verb)
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- Future Present Tense
(will/shall + have + past participle form of verb)
(Progressive
Tenses – used for unfinished events)
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- Past Progressive Tense
(was + present participle form of verb or -ing form of verb)
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- Present Progressive Tense (Be-Verbs
(am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being) + present participle form of verb or
-ing form of verb)
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- Future Progressive Tense
(will/shall + be + present participle form of verb or -ing form of verb)
E.) Adverb
- modifiers of verbs, adjectives or
another adverb.
- 4 types of Adverb: Time (i.e.
again, yesterday, never), Manner (i.e. angrily, easily, loudly), Degree
(i.e. often, sometimes, daily) and Direction (i.e. near, there,
ahead, ahead, top).
F.) Preposition
- connects noun or pronoun to
another word
- prepositions are of, during, with,
at, from, into, during, including, until, against.
G.) Interjection
- a word that express emotions or
feelings (i.e. Wow!)
H.) Conjunction
- connects clauses or phrases
- 3 types of conjunction: Coordinating
Conjunction (connects equally important phrases), Subordinating
Conjunction (connect independent or complete clause with dependent
clauses) and Correlative Conjunction (joins different words in a
sentence together).
- Coordinating
Conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
- Subordinating
Conjunction (although, as, before, once, though, until, whether)
- Correlative
Conjunction (both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also)
I.) Determiner
- words that introduces a noun
- has 4 types:
- Articles
(a, an, the)
- Demonstrative
Pro. (this, that, these, those)
- Quantifiers
(many, much, a lot of, most, some, any)
- Possessive Pro.
(my, yours, his, hers, theirs, theirs, her)
*numbers (one, ten, etc.)
*Cardinal Numbers (4th. 5th,
6th, etc.)
J.) Verbal
- verbs that acts as another part of
speech
-has 4 types: Present Verbal
(-ing), Past Verbal (-d and -ed), Verbal Gerund (i.e.
Painting helps me relax) and Infinitives (verbals that begins
with the word “to”).