Part of Speach
Part of Speach
Part of Speach
Parts of speech.
In the English language, words can be
considered as the smallest elements that
have distinctive meanings. Based on their
use and functions, there are 8 major parts
of speech in English grammar: noun,
pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective,
conjunction, preposition, and interjection.
Tabel 1
Noun
Words that are used to name persons,
things, animals, places, ideas, or events.
Examples:
• Nina is a nurse. (person)
• Dogs can be extremely cute.(animal)
• It is my birthday. (The word “birthday” is a
noun which refers to an event.
Types of nouns
Proper– proper nouns always start with a capital letter and refers
to specific names of persons, places, or things.
Examples: Tanjungpinang,Pizza,Gramedia
Common– common (umum) nouns are the opposite of proper
nouns. These are just generic names of persons, things, or
places.
Examples: city, shop
Concrete– this kind refers to nouns which you can perceive
(diamati) through your five senses (panca indra).
Examples: folder, sand, board
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Count– it refers to anything that is countable,
and has a singular and plural form. Examples:
kitten, video, ball
Mass– this is the opposite of count nouns. Mass
nouns are also called non-countable nouns, and
they need to have “counters” to quantify them.
Examples of Counters: kilo, cup, meter
Examples of Mass Nouns: rice, flour, garter
Collective– refers to a group of persons,
animals, or things. Example: faculty (group of
teachers), class (group of students)
Pronoun
A pronoun is a part of a speech which
functions as a replacement for a noun.
Some examples of pronouns are: I, it, he,
she, mine, his, hers, we, they, theirs, and
ours.
Sample Sentences:
– Janice is a very stubborn child. She just stared
at me and when I told her to stop.
– The largest slice is mine.
– We are number one.
The italicized words in the sentences above
are the pronouns in the sentence.
Adjective
This part of a speech is used to describe a noun
or a pronoun. Adjectives can specify the quality,
the size, and the number of nouns or pronouns.
Example: Big, pretty, expensive, green, round,
French, loud, quick, fat.
Example sentences:
– He has big blue eyes.
– The new car broke down.
– The old lady was talking in a quiet voice
Different Types of adjectives
• Examples:
• Quick + ly = quickly
• Strange + ly = strangely
• Dead + ly = deadly
• Sudden + ly = suddenly
• Clever + ly = cleverly
• Brave + ly = bravely
• Real + ly = really
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