Emma Bauer

Personal Pronoun

Demonstrative Pronoun

• Refers to and identifies a noun or pronoun

• refers to a specific noun/changes form to indicate such
• Examples - I, you, he, she, we, and they

• Examples: this, that, these those

Coordinating Conjunctions

Action Verb

Linking Verb

Helping Verbs

• To show action
• Examples: clean, cut, drive, eat, fly, go, live, make, play, read, run, shower, sleep, smile, stop, sweep, swim, think, throw, trip, and walk

• Link subject of sentence with noun/adjective
• Forms of be: be, am, is, are, was, were, been, and being
• Other linking verbs: appear, become, feel, grow, look, seem, remain, smell, sound, stay, taste, and turn

Pronouns

• FANBOYS: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
• 2 Independent Clauses
• Builds compound sentences

• can replace a noun or other pronoun/many different types of pronouns

• Help the main verb in the sentence by telling us more about its tense/subtleties of its meaning
• Examples: be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being, have, has, could, should, would, may, might, must, shall, can, will, do, did, does, and having

Indefinite Pronoun

Interjections

Articles

Interrogative Pronoun

• Refers to a person or group of people that can't be specifically identified
• Examples: all, any, another, someone, somebody, few, many, one, each, others

• A, and = indefinite
• The = definite
• An = must have vowel sound
• A, The = in front of words that begin with a consonant

• Used to ask questions
• Examples: what, who, when, and which

Collective Noun

• A word that shows emotion
• Not grammatically related to the rest of the sentence
• One or two words
• At the beginning of a sentence
• Examples: congratulations, golly, gosh, hey, holy cow, uh-oh, ugh, whoa, whoops, wow, yikes, yippee, yuck, yes, and yay

• Names of groups of member of a group or groups
• Examples: audience, committee, department, society, or team

Concrete Noun

• Tangible/can experience with one of your senses
• Examples: puppy, pencil, trumpet, ice, and thunder

Subordinating Conjunctions

• A WHITE BUS
• (A white bus) Dependent Clause, Independent Clause
• Independent Clause (a white bus) Dependent Clause
• Builds complex sentences
• A White Bus Words: after, as, although, where, wherever, when, whenever, while, whether, how, if, in case, in order, that, though, even if, even though, ever since, before, because, until, unless, so, so that, and since

Compound Noun

Abstract Nouns

Noun

• Person, place, thing, idea, and animals

• Nouns that can't be physically interacted with/can't experience with senses
• Examples: bravery, love, trust, curiosity, and boredom

• Two words combined three forms
• Two words combined to make one
• Two words joined by a hyphen
• Two words associated together but not combined (open form)
• Examples of combination: firefly, keyboard
• Examples of hyphenated: over-the-counter, six-pack
• Examples of open form: post office, real estate

Common Noun

• Names of people, places, things and animals
• Examples of people: teacher or parent
• Examples of places: beach, church
• Examples of things: car, fence
• Examples of animals: horse or cat

Proper Noun

• Names of specific people, places, things, and animals
• Examples: Mrs. Jones, Bill Clinton - people
• Examples of places: Virginia, McDonalds
• Examples of things: Hope Diamond, Berlin Wall
• Examples of animals: Black beauty, Bugs Bunny

9 Parts of Speech

By Emma Bauer