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Parts of Speech
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Mind Map on Parts of Speech, created by Cynthia Albarran on 23/02/2021.
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Parts of Speech
Two categories
Major class: -nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
They carry most of the content or meaning of a sentence.
Minor class: -auxiliary verbs, prepositions, pronouns, deteminers, conjuctions
Plays a more structural role in a sentence
Nouns: Is the name of a person, place or thing
3 Types
Common nouns
nouns referring to a kind of person, thing, or idea
Count / noncount nouns: take the plural inflection
Proper nouns: names for unique individuals or places
Collective nouns:A small number of nouns that refer to groups
Verbs: A word that denotes an action or state of being.
verbs follow nouns and may be followed in turn by adjectives, adverbs, or other nouns
Adjectives: it describes or denotes the qualities of something
commonly occur between a determiner and a noun, or after be or other linking verbs, they can also follow a noun
The function of adjectives is to modify or complete nouns.
Two adjective types:
attributive, which precede nouns.
Ex. The old bucket sprang leak.
and predicative, which follow linking verbs
Ex. He became angry at the very thought.
Adverbs: modify verbs and contribute meaning of various sorts of sentences
Direction: Jim pointed there
Location: Isabelle shos locally
Manner: the choir sang joyfully at the auditon
Time: Soon Rachel will retire
Pronouns: refer to or replace nouns and noun phrases within a text or as direct reference to an outside situation
Subject
Object
Reflexive
Possessive
Demonstrative
Determiners:refer to that special class of words that limit the nouns that follow them
Articles
Demonstratives
Possessive determiners
Prepositons: connect words to other parts of a sentence
Conjuctions: are words that join.
coordinating conjunctions, such as and, but, and or, which join elements that are grammatically equal
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