Eight Parts of Speech
Interjections= tell emotion or surprise
• example: yay, oh no, oops. Yeah, life is good for Robert, his wife, and their two cats. Cheerio!
NOUNS
1. Common = any person, place, thing, or idea. Use capital letter
• Example: teacher, state, city. My brother is a teacher. Teachers are always busy.
2. Proper = specific persons, places, and things. Use capital letter
• Example: Robert, California, Istanbul. Robert is a teacher in California.
3. Concrete = can be experienced through our senses
• Example: teacher, student, desk, cat, pen
4. Abstract = cannot be experienced directly; they are a quality or idea
• Example: success, loyalty, freedom, achievement, arrival
VERBS
1. helping or auxiliary verbs= be, do, and have. show tense or help create questions and negative statements
2. Main/Lexical Verbs= show what the subject does or what state the subject is in
3. Modal Verbs= show special conditions like ability, probability, or suggestion. Can
ADVERBS
1. regular adverbs = end in -ly
2. irregular adverbs = adjective and adverb are the same
CONJUNCTIONS & PREPOSITIONS
1. Coordinating conjunctions= connect, or bridge, two parts of a sentence that have a similar form or equal importance in the sentence.
• For example, we can connect two or more nouns or noun phrases or two or more verbs or verb phrases
• FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
2. Common prepositions= in, on, at, to. They are added in front of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun to add extra information. They act as adjectives or adverbs by describing a noun or a verb.
INTERJECTION
• An interjection is a spoken or written expression of emotion
• Examples: "Wow!" for surprise, "Ouch!" for pain, "Wow!" for surprise, or "Argh!" for frustration.
• These words can stand alone and are usually capitalized and punctuated.