Saturday, 8 November 2008

What are the main parts of speech

Verbs:The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb or compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being.
Ex: He runs fast.

Nouns: A
noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. this are clasificates in differents types
Ex: Elena ate tomatoes at the dinner.

Proper nouns: is the name of a particular person, place or thing. Can be capitalized.
Ex: Laura read her book in the morning.

Common nouns: are nouns that do not name any particular person, place or thing. Are not capitalized.
Ex: The book that we read was bored.

Abstract nouns: name qualities, characteristics, and ideas. Can be proper or common noun needing to be capitalized or not.
Ex: Your childrens are reading more about different cultures.

Concrete nouns: name objects that can be perceived and recognized by the tenses. can be both needing to be capitalized or not.
Ex: The perfum of her made me feel bad.

Collective nouns: name a group of people, animal, or item. they can be common or proper noun.
Ex: People travel around the world only if they have money.

pronouns: A
pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. You use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you".pronouns include the personal pronoun, the demonstrative pronoun, the interrogative pronoun, the indefinite pronoun, the relative pronoun, the reflexive pronoun and intensitive pronouns.

Personal Pronouns:A indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of possession and defines who owns a particular object or person. The personal pronouns are "mine," "yours," "hers," "his," "its," "ours," and "theirs."
Ex: She said me that book was of him.

Demonstrative Pronouns: identifies a noun or a pronoun. "This" and "these" refer to things that are nearby either in space or in time, while "that" and "those".
Ex: That boy is my boyfriend?

Interrogative Pronouns
An
interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions. The interrogative pronouns are "who," "whom," "which," "what"and "where".
Ex: Who is that boy?

Relative Pronouns
You can use a
relative pronoun is used to link one phrase or clause to another phrase or clause. The relative pronouns are "who," "whom," "that," and "which.
Ex: Of all this books, which do you prefer?

Indefinite Pronouns: An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun referring to an identifiable but not specified person or thing. An indefinite pronoun conveys the idea of all, any, none, or some.
Ex: Most of my students were waiting for me, but I couldn't came.

Reflexive Pronouns: You can use a
reflexive pronoun to refer back to the subject of the clause or sentence.The reflexive pronouns are "myself," "yourself," "herself," "himself," "itself," "ourselves," "yourselves," and "themselves." Note each of these can also act as an intensive pronoun.
Ex: I listen myself.

Intensive Pronouns: An intensive pronoun is a pronoun used to emphasise its antecedent. Intensive pronouns are identical in form to reflexive pronouns.
Ex: My myself believe that someone is seeing me now.

Prepositions: A
preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
Ex: she was laughing during the class.

Adjectives: An
adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
Ex: We need a big paper for our interview.

Adverbs: An
adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".
Ex: She is very fast running.

Conjuctions: You can use a
conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses.
Ex: I want to sing at the concert but nobody wants hear me.

Interjections: An
interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.
Ex: Good lord, she is dancing on the water.

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