Read the sentences below. Identify the parts speech for the bolded word.
1.The Amazon and the Mississippi are among the longest rivers in the world. __________
2.These imported cars are so expensive that they are not popular in our country.__________
3.Mrs. Smith is a person in-charge of this store. ___________
4.This dress was worn by Elizabeth Taylor on her wedding day. __________
5.One of the ceiling fan fell to the floor during our English lesson last week. __________
6.Danial is organizing a party to which he has invited orphans and mentally
handicapped children ________________.
7.Is it true that Hamidah and her sister met with an accident? __________
8.From now on a policeman will help school children to cross the road. __________
9.We should stay away from that room, shouldn’t we? Yes, we should.__________
10.She lost the book whom she had borrowed from me. __________
11.The couple was entertaining their guests in the living room.__________
12.Father drives his blue car quickly.____________
13.She bought him a new bicycle for his birthday. __________
14.Ahmad will enter a drawing competition next week. __________
15.What did father ask him to make? __________
16.The man takes the prize from the presenter. __________
17.All the boys participate in the dancing contest. __________
18.She took the bus by herself every day. __________
19.They put the fruits into the wooden basket. __________
20.My mother is younger than my father. __________
Thursday, March 25, 2010
PARTS OF SPEECH
There are eight kinds of words in the English language. Each kind of word plays a particular function in a sentence. These eight kinds of words are called Parts of Speech.
1. Nouns
A noun is used to name a person, place or thing.
For instance: John, Kuala Lumpur, boy, dog, house, town, book etc.
2. Verbs
The verb is the most important part of speech in a sentence. We must have a verb in every sentence. Otherwise, the sentence will be incomplete and meaningless.
Examples: He eats.
She reads.
They fight.
I work.
He runs.
3. Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
‘He’ for a boy, man and ‘she’ for a girl, woman
‘They’ for more than one person
‘It’ for non- human referent
‘We’, ‘their’, ‘them’ etc
For example: John is a boy. He is tall
Mary is a girl. She is clever.
The dog is a poodle. It is small.
4. Adjectives
An adjective is added to a noun. It tells us more about the person, place or thing named by the Noun.
For example: black dog, beautiful girl, sweet fruit, clever boy etc.
5. Adverbs
An adverb is a word which is added to a verb, an adjective or another adverb. An adverb is said to qualify (to expand the meaning of) the word to which it is added.
For example: Eat slowly. (eat= verb, slowly= adverb)
Very beautiful. (beautiful= adjective, very= adverb)
Too soon. ( soon=adverb, too=adverb)
6. Prepositions
A preposition is a word used to show the relationship between certain words in a sentence.
For instance: The book is on the table.
The book is under the table
The cat is on the chair
The cat sits near the chair.
The words ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘near’ show the relationship between the book and the table and the cat and the chair. They are called preposition.
7. Conjunctions
A conjunction is a word used to join words, groups of words or sentences together.
For example: A man and a boy
Laughed and cried
Right or wrong
I saw it but could not reach it.
8. Interjections
The word interjection means ‘to throw between’. Interjections are words thrown into the sentence to express some sudden strong feeling or emotion such as joy, grief, disgust, excitement, surprise, etc.
For example: Hurrah!, Oh!, Bravo!, Alas!, Hello!, etc.
1. Nouns
A noun is used to name a person, place or thing.
For instance: John, Kuala Lumpur, boy, dog, house, town, book etc.
2. Verbs
The verb is the most important part of speech in a sentence. We must have a verb in every sentence. Otherwise, the sentence will be incomplete and meaningless.
Examples: He eats.
She reads.
They fight.
I work.
He runs.
3. Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
‘He’ for a boy, man and ‘she’ for a girl, woman
‘They’ for more than one person
‘It’ for non- human referent
‘We’, ‘their’, ‘them’ etc
For example: John is a boy. He is tall
Mary is a girl. She is clever.
The dog is a poodle. It is small.
4. Adjectives
An adjective is added to a noun. It tells us more about the person, place or thing named by the Noun.
For example: black dog, beautiful girl, sweet fruit, clever boy etc.
5. Adverbs
An adverb is a word which is added to a verb, an adjective or another adverb. An adverb is said to qualify (to expand the meaning of) the word to which it is added.
For example: Eat slowly. (eat= verb, slowly= adverb)
Very beautiful. (beautiful= adjective, very= adverb)
Too soon. ( soon=adverb, too=adverb)
6. Prepositions
A preposition is a word used to show the relationship between certain words in a sentence.
For instance: The book is on the table.
The book is under the table
The cat is on the chair
The cat sits near the chair.
The words ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘near’ show the relationship between the book and the table and the cat and the chair. They are called preposition.
7. Conjunctions
A conjunction is a word used to join words, groups of words or sentences together.
For example: A man and a boy
Laughed and cried
Right or wrong
I saw it but could not reach it.
8. Interjections
The word interjection means ‘to throw between’. Interjections are words thrown into the sentence to express some sudden strong feeling or emotion such as joy, grief, disgust, excitement, surprise, etc.
For example: Hurrah!, Oh!, Bravo!, Alas!, Hello!, etc.
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