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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Tomorrow: write 5 sentences about the Spring Games activity that use intensifiers or degree complements (“My team ran too slowly to win.”)
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- Part of Speech = what “kind” of word something is
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- noun = things, animals, people, places
- verb = actions and states (also modals)
- adjective = modifies nouns
- adverb = modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (or entire sentences)
- preposition = before nouns, these give adjective or adverb information about something
- determiner = before a noun phrase, to tell which or how many
- articles: a/an, the
- quantifiers: much, many
- possessives: my, John’s
- demonstratives: this, these, which
- conjunction = join two sentences or phrases (and, but, because, if)
- pronoun = replace a noun in a sentence
- interjection = words that can go anywhere, and express the speaker’s feeling
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- Many words can be different parts of speech in different situations.
- What part of speech is the italic word in each of these sentences?
- 1 We need to learn about our past. - noun
- 2 Your friend just went past. - adverb
- 3 The past event will be remembered forever. - adjective
- 4 The fall colors are great this year. - adjective
- 5 The leaves fall all over the ground. - verb
- 6 The branches broke his fall from the tree. - noun
- 7 The spring is full of mud. - noun
- 8 Spring into action before it’s too late. - verb
- 9 Don’t come near me! - preposition
- 10 Do you think he is near? - adverb
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- Most parts of speech have important distinctions that can change the grammar:
- nouns: count/noncount, singular/plural, common/proper
- verbs: action/stative, main/auxiliary, transitive/intransitive
- conjunctions: coordinating/subordinating
- adverbs: frequency/manner/focus
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- This week we’ll talk about all the different verb tenses in English.
- 3 time frames * 4 aspects = 12 verb tenses
- (Aspect: simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous)
- continuous = [be] + verb(ing)
- perfect = [have] + past participle
- perfect continuous = [have] + been + verb(ing)
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