Parts of Speech

Subjects and Predicates

Rule: A sentence has two main parts: a subject and a predicate.

Subject Predicate

Person Our science teacher

Organized the fair.

Place Florida’s beaches

Attract many tourists.

Thing Jamie’s car Is ten years old

Idea His courage was remarkable.

Complete and Simple Subjects

Rule :A complete subject includes all the words used to identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about.

Examples The salesperson in the store explained the

computer.

Complete and Simple Predicates

Rule: A complete predicate includes all the words that tell what the subject is doing or

that tell something about the subject. Examples

The wild horse roamed across the prairie.

Nouns

Rule: A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.

Examples:People: sailor, brother, Dr. Adams,

senators, EdPlaces: Forest, North Carolina,

rooms, England, building etc.

Nouns Continued…

Things: Rug, explosion, piano, bird, rain, trucks, minutes, wind, fly, chipmunk, colors

Ideas and Qualities: freedom, happiness, fun, love, inflation, bravery, anger, honesty, sickness, faith, democracy, thought, honor, excitement.

Common and Proper Nouns

Rule: All nouns are either common nouns

or proper nouns. A common noun name any person ,place, or thing. A proper noun names a particular

person, place, or thing.

Common Nouns Proper nouns

man Mr. Henry Collins

city Chicago

building World Trade Center

team Dallas Cowboys

Pronouns

A noun is a word that takes the place of one or more nouns

Action Verbs

Rule: An action verb tells what action a subject is performing.

Most action verbs show physical actionExamples: Dad plants tulip bulbs every fall Karen skated across the frozen pond.

Verb Phrase

Rule : A verb phrase is a main verb plus one or more helping verbs.

Examples: John should have announced the contest in

homeroom today. Barbara will surely help you with your math

before the test tomorrow. Shouldn’t Robin go with us?

Linking Verb

Rule: A linking verb links the subject with another word in the sentence. The other

word either renames or describes the subject.

Tim is my brother Have you been sad lately?

Adjectives

Rule: An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun.

What kind? The old car needs to be painted.

Do you like fresh broccoli?

Which one(s)? These boots belong to Stacy.

How many? Thirty people attended the meeting. He owns many tapes.

How much? Little room was left in the suitcase.

Adverbs

Rule: An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Many adverbs end in –Iy.

Examples: Recently congress voted

unanimously for the bill. Absentmindedly Carl strolled casually into

the wrong classroom.

Prepositions

Rule – a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence

Example – Below the stairs is extra storage space.

Conjunctions

Rule – connects words or groups of words Her ring and bracelet were lost. She or he will be elected.

Interjections

Rule – a word that expresses strong feeling or emotion