The Eight Parts of Speech

If you understand the eight parts of speech, the rest of the grammar easy for you. Look at this list of seemingly complex topics that can be easily understood and resume if you know the parts of speech, prepositional phrases, dependent clauses, gerunds, participles and infinite.

Before I show you how easy it is to these arguments, however, reviewing the parts of speech to make.

Each word in English is one of eight categories or “parts of speech.” These categories give us a path through the words and arrange them according to their form and function.

1. the name of people’s names, places, things or ideas. (Mary ate the cake.)

2. Pronouns take the place of names. (She ate it up.)

3. Adjectives and pronouns change their names. (For the apple pie).

4. Verbs show action or state of being. (Eat the cake.)

5. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs and other areas. (Fast food cake.)

6. Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word or element in the rest of the sentence. (Eat the cake in the kitchen.)

7. Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses. (If you want the cake or cake?)

8. Interjections show excitement. They are not grammatically connected to the rest of the sentence. (Wow! me!)

Now, the address of that list above complicated …

prepositional phrases act as adjectives or adverbs. These are groups of words that begin and end with a preposition with a noun or pronoun.

The striped dress is mine.

Stripes is a prepositional phrase. It begins with a preposition (with) ends with a name (strips), and the entire phrase acts as an adjective describing a dress. Cool, huh?

dependent clauses that act as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. These are groups of words with a subject and a verb.

Whenever I’m nervous, I eat.

Whenever I get nervous is a subordinate clause. It has a subject (I) and a verb (is), and acts as an adverb clause of a GM.

Gerunds act as nouns. They are formed from verbs ending in-ing.

The race is fun!

The race is a gerund. E ‘consists of a verb (run), and acts as a noun. This is the subject of the sentence.

Participles as adjectives. They are formed from verbs and ending in-ing,-d,-e.

Watch The Falling Star.

Shooting is a participle. E ‘consists of a verb (throw), and acts as an adjective that modifies the name stars.

Infinitives as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. They are formed by “verb +”.

I want to run.

To run an infinite. It takes the form of a verb + “and acts as a noun. And” the object of the verb love.

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