Thursday, August 28, 2008

English I Pre-AP

Parts Of Speech
  • Nouns- name persons, places, things, ideas, or qualities (ex. Capote, woman, Mississippi River, seashell, hardship, courage)
  • Pronouns- usually replace nouns and function as nouns (ex. I, you, he, this, that, who, which, everyone)
  • Verbs- express actions, occurences, or states of being (ex. run, write, be, appear, seem)
  • Adjectives- describe or modify nouns or pronouns (ex. necessary, private, beautiful)
  • Adverbs- Answer these questions: when, where, why, how, how much, or in what way? They modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs (ex. very, too, loudly, finally, yesterday, next, daringly)
  • Prepositions- Relate nouns or pronouns to other words in a sentence (ex. about, to, with, around, during, in, of, within
  • Conjunctions- link words, phrases, and clauses
  • Coordinating Conjunctions- linds words, phrases, or clauses, of equal importance (ex. and, but, so, for, or, nor, not only...but also, either...or)
  • Subordinating Conjunctions- introduce clauses that cannot stand by themselves as compete sentences and link them to main clauses (although, because, if, whenever, as, whether, in order that)
  • Interjections- express feeling or command attention, either alone or in a sentence (ex. hey, oh, darn, wow, hark!)
  • Articles- any of three words to signal the presence of a noun (ex. a, an, the)

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