Wednesday 21 May 2014

Grammar Review- Parts of Speech

We will be reviewing Parts of Speech over the next week or two. Today we looked at  Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives.  Here is a summary and links to helpful Schoolhouse Rock videos we watched in class.

Nouns- person, place or thing
Common- student, teacher, province
Proper- Josh, Mrs. Hendriks, Ontario
          
Verbs- action or state of being
Action- jump, run, talk, eat
Helping- were, will, should  (were jumping, will run, should eat)
Linking- were, is, was


Adjectives- describe nouns




We will also be looking at Adverbs and Prepositions

Adverbs- describe a verb, adjectives and other adverbs
Quickly, slowly, very, too

Prepositions-  show direction or location  and shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.
on, over, around, to, from


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