Chapter 1 - Parts of Speech

Type of pronoun - points out a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.

Take the place of one or more nouns or pronouns

Consists of two or more words that together names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.

Modifies a noun or a pronoun

A person, a place, a thing, or an idea

Identify the word that is in bold - What is the address of this house?

Names any one of the group of person, place, things or ideas.

Most people need eight to ten hours of sleep nightly. (How many nouns are there?)

Identify the word in bold - She trusts her friend

What is it? - The most frequently used adjectives are a, an, the.

How many prepositional phrases -The temperature of the water at the fish hatchery seldom varies

Identify the word in bold - Elsa swam for many hours

Refers to the subject of a sentence and functions as a complement.

Identify the word in bold - This is our favorite campsite.

Identify the word that's in bold - I’m not quite myself today.

Expresses action or a state of being

Names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.

Name the action verb - Last week we played Burdick School

Definition - Emphasizes its antecedent and has no gramatical function in the sentence

A word that tells who or what receives the action of the verb

Even as a young man, he had a whimsical spirit. (How many adjective are in the sentence?)