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- Grammar Glossary
1. Verbs
2. Present
3. Past
4. Future
- Be Going to ...
- Simple Future
5. Can
6. Make / Do
Adjectives
Adverbs
Antonyms
Articles/Determiners
- Some / Any / No
Compound Words
Contractions
Countable/Uncountable
- (A) few / (A) little
- Much / Many / A lot
Demonstratives
Homonyms
Homophones
Idioms
Making Sentences
- Punctuation
Nouns
Parts of Speech
Plurals
Possessives
- Genitive Case
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prepositions
- Place
- Time
Pronouns
Question Words
Syllables
Synonyms

- Grammar Glossary
1. Verbs
2. Present
3. Past
4. Future
- Be Going to ...
- Simple Future
5. Can
6. Make / Do
Adjectives
Adverbs
Antonyms
Articles/Determiners
- Some / Any / No
Compound Words
Contractions
Countable/Uncountable
- (A) few / (A) little
- Much / Many / A lot
Demonstratives
Homonyms
Homophones
Idioms
Making Sentences
- Punctuation
Nouns
Parts of Speech
Plurals
Possessives
- Genitive Case
Prefixes and Suffixes
Prepositions
- Place
- Time
Pronouns
Question Words
Syllables
Synonyms

FIGURES OF SPEECH

Figures of Speech

Adjunction Examples

Allegory Examples

Alliteration Examples

Antimetabole Examples

Double Negative Examples

False Analogy Examples

Funny Metaphors Examples

Onomatopoeia Examples

Personification Examples

Polysyndeton Examples

Pun Examples

Rhetorical Questions Examples

Understatement Examples

Verbal Irony Examples

Zeugma Examples

Abstract Nouns Examples

Commonly Misspelled Words

Types Of Verbs

Usage Of Semicolon

Demonstrative Adjectives

Comma Splice Examples

What Are Prepositions

Degrees of Comparison

Dangling Modifiers

Compliment Vs Complement

Common Homophones List

Common Grammatical Errors

Colon Vs Semicolon

Affect Vs Effect

Linking Verbs

Prepositional Phrases List

Types of Clauses

Use Of Articles In English

When To Use A Comma

When To Use A Hyphen

Passive Voice & Active Voice

Subject Verb Agreement

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PARTS OF SPEECH -LESSON 1

Parts of Speech
Chapter 1 Introduction

Learning about the parts of speech is the first step in grammar study just as learning the letters of the alphabet is the first step to being able to read and write. From learning the parts of speech we begin to understand the use or function of words and how words are joined together to make meaningful communication. To understand what a part of speech is, you must understand the idea of putting similar things together into groups or categories. Let's look at some examples of categories.

COLORS	FRUITS	DRINKS	LANGUAGES
blue	banana	milk	Tamil
red	apple	water	Telugu
yellow	orange	soda	Hindi
green	grape	beer	English
black	lemon	coffee	Malayalam

Colors, fruits, drinks, and languages are categories. If I tell you that Grebo is a language, you would understand exactly what Grebo is. If we did not have the category language, it would be hard to explain what is meant by the word Grebo. It is very convenient to have categories to talk about similar things. Let's look at some more examples of categories. In the list below, which does not belong with the others?

a) violin
b) hammer
c) drums
d) piano
e) guitar

If you chose hammer, you are right. Violin, drums, piano, and guitar are used to make music, but a hammer is not used to make music. Hammer doesn't fit with the other words because it is a tool and all of the others are musical instruments.

Let's try another example. Which of these does not belong with the others?

a) hammer
b) saw
c) violin
c) screwdriver
d) wrench

This time, the word violin does not belong because it is not a tool. It is very useful to have categories like musical instruments and tools to organize our ideas. The parts of speech arecategories used to organize or classify words according to how they are used. We use parts of speech as a way to make it easier to talk about language.

The philosopher Aristotle and later scientists studied animals and classified them according to what they have in common. For example, eagles, robins and sparrows are kinds of birds;sharks, salmon and tuna are kinds of fish; and dogs, horses and elephants are kinds of mammals. Aristotle and others also studied language and classified words according to what they have in common. We usually use 8 categories or parts of speech to classify all the words we use in English. This classification is not perfect. Sometimes it is hard to tell which category a word belongs in. The same word may belong in different categories depending on how it is used. There may be better ways to classify English than by using the 8 parts of speech. But thisclassification has been used for a long time and many grammar books use it, so it is easier to keep on using it. It is possible to speak or learn a language without knowing the parts of speech, but for most of us, knowing about parts of speech makes things easier.

Here is an example of how it can be helpful to know about the parts of speech. Look at the sentence: The man surreptitiously entered the room. You probably don't know the meaning of the word surreptitiously, but if you know about parts of speech, you will recognize that it is an adverb and that it tells you something about how the man entered the room. You may still not understand the exact meaning of the word, but you can understand the whole sentence better than if you did not know about parts of speech.

When you look up a word in a dictionary, you will find not only the meaning of the word but also what part of speech it is. This information is very helpful in understanding the full meaning of the word and knowing how to use it.

The 8 parts of speech that are used to describe English words are:

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Pronouns
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Articles

This set of lessons will teach you about each of the parts of speech and show how they are different from each other. They will help you recognize which part of speech each word in a sentence is and that will help you become a better reader. Review this lesson as many times as you want, and when you are ready, take the pop quiz on this chapter.

END OF CHAPTER 1