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Westin Schmids 9 parts of speech

Adjectives

Action Verbs

Words that show action.

Examples

Which one?

What kind?

How many?

Whose?

clean, cut, run, drive, eat, fly, go, live, and make

Linking Verbs

linking verbs are the main verb and they link the subject and the adjective together in a sentence

Helping Verbs

Helping verbs help other verbs.

Examples

am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be, have, has,had, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would, may,might, must, can, and could

be, am, is, are was, were, been, and being

Words that show feeling

Interjections

Pronouns

Conjunctions

Common VS. Proper

Words that replace a proper noun there are four different categories.

hey

whoops

yikes

well

eeeek

darn

wow

yeah

ouch

sob

aw

gee

bravo

whoa

Coordinating

Subordinating

Examples

creates complex sentences

personal

demonstrative

interrogative

indefinite

for,

and,

nor,

but,

or,

yet,

so

Common nouns are general and aren't that descriptive. While proper nouns are the opposite and they are not general but, they are descriptive.

this

that

these

those

what

who

whom

which

all

any another

someone

he

she

we

they

them

after

although

as

when

while

where

how

if

than

though

because

before

until

unless

since

so that

Examples

- combines 2 IC

which creates

compound sentences

Proper

Concrete VS. Abstract

Common

Article

Examples

Concrete are things you can feel, smell, taste, see, and hear. Abstract are things you can't use your senses.

Westin Fuzzy

dog cat horse

Indefinite

A

An

Examples

Concrete

Abstract

The-Definite

door

wall

window

happiness dread

sadness

the knot

the clearing

an upper branch

the forest

a new polished spoon

the 7th stick

the temporary structure

the watch

an enemy

a notch

a stranger

Compound VS. Collective

Compound is two words put together but, collective is a group of the same things.

Examples

Compound

Collective

Group people council

firefly

aboard

toybox

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