Transcript of English Grammar P ARTS OF S PEECH Presented by: Pir Suhail Ahmed.
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- English Grammar P ARTS OF S PEECH Presented by: Pir Suhail
Ahmed
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- E IGHT P ARTS OF S PEECH Nouns Adjecti ves Pronouns Adverbs
Conjunctions Prepositions Verb s Interjections
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- A A Person An An Idea A A Thing Place A word that names
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- K INDS OF N OUNS Common Nouns boy girl Proper Nouns Ali Zara
Singular Nouns boy girl Plural Nouns boys girls Singular Possessive
boys girls Plural Possessive boys girls
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- Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun. Answers these
questions:
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- Interrogative Pronouns who whom what which whose Indefinite
Pronouns anybody, one, each, either, none, someone Personal
Pronouns I, me, mine you, your, yours she, her, hers, it, its we,
us, our, ours they, them, their, theirs myself, yourself
Demonstrative Pronouns this, that, these, those The pronoun is a
word used in place of one or more nouns. It may stand for a person,
place, thing, or idea.
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- A word that expresses action or otherwise helps to make a
statement. Every sentence must have a verb. Verb Subject
Predicate
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- K INDS OF V ERBS Action verbs express mental or physical
action. Linking verbs make a statement by connecting the subject
with a word that describes or explains it. He rode the horse to
victory. He has been sick.
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- Modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Answers these questions:
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- Introduces a noun or pronoun or a phrase or clause functioning
in the sentence as a noun. The word or word group that the
preposition introduces is its object.
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- aboard about above across after against along among around at
before behind below beneath beside between beyond by down during
except for from in into like of off on over past since through
throughout to toward under underneath until up upon with within
without C OMMON P REPOSITIONS
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- A word that joins words or groups of words. and however because
either/or neither/nor but so if although then thus
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- An exclamatory word that expresses emotion.
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