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Business Communication: Articulation and Parts of Speech

The document discusses the parts of speech in the English language and provides examples of each. It identifies the 8 parts of speech as nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. For each part of speech, it provides definitions and examples to illustrate how words fulfilling that part of speech function in sentences. It also includes an exercise that asks the reader to identify the parts of speech in sample sentences.

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Business Communication: Articulation and Parts of Speech

The document discusses the parts of speech in the English language and provides examples of each. It identifies the 8 parts of speech as nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. For each part of speech, it provides definitions and examples to illustrate how words fulfilling that part of speech function in sentences. It also includes an exercise that asks the reader to identify the parts of speech in sample sentences.

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Business communication

Articulation and parts of speech


• pronunciation
• The way in which the words of a language are made to
sound when speaking.
• articulation
• Use of tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs to make a
sound. Often the concept is only used for the production of
consonants,
• intonation
• The rise and fall of the voice in speaking. Some texts use
"inflection" instead of intonation to indicate change in pitch.
In the English language . . .
there are eight parts of speech:
1. Nouns
2. Verbs Every word in a sentence
3. Pronouns has a job to do!
4. Adjectives
5. Adverbs
6. Conjunctions
7. Prepositions
8. Interjections
1. Noun: person, place, thing

• Person: Mr. Girish likes to eat spinach.

• Place: Mathura is an old town.

• Thing: A cook requires pots.


Honesty is very important.
2. Verb: shows action or being

• Action: He ran through the


forest.
• Being: He was sad this
morning.
3. Pronoun: takes place of a noun

Akash was studying for the


mid-term exam when he
realized it was three o’clock
in the morning.
4. Adjective: describes a noun

• The beautiful woman wanted a


couple of pairs of shoes.

• The rainy day made us even sadder.


Article: There are three articles: a, an, & the
(Articles are technically adjectives.)

• The bicycle was not only red but shiny.


• A yellow moon always appears in
October.
• An excellent student, Aryan passed all
his exams.
5. Adverb: describes a verb

• The little girl walked happily


through the park.

• The orphan hungrily ate the hot


stew.
6. Conjunctions: joining words
• Manu and Maria loved to cook.
• You will go to school, or you will fail.
• I’m happy because I just got my pay
cheque.
• It has been cloudy since the morning.
7. Prepositions: show position or direction

• The cat was on the table.


• The dog was under the table.
• These are some common prepositions:
• for on to up
• at under above toward
• with between in behind
• from upon into off
8. Interjections: expressive words

• Wow! You knocked that ball out of the


park.
• Oh, you really need to take care of
yourself.
• Huh? What did you say?
• Ah, now I understand the problem.
Identify each word in the following
sentence

The beautiful queen was


walking slowly on the cool
lawn, and she was reading a
long book about knights and
kings.
The beautiful queen was walking
article adjective noun verb

slowly on the cool lawn, and she


adverb preposition article adjective noun conjunction pronoun

was reading a long book about


verb article adjective noun preposition

knights and kings.


noun conjunction noun
Assignment
Identify the parts of speech:
1. The queen knew she would be the only pretty woman
at the party.

2. The king did not know if he was going to make the cake,
and he was afraid to tell the queen.

3. The thin waitress told the customers that they


desperately needed to go on a diet.

4. I ran many miles every day, and I couldn’t lose a pound.

5. This quiz was a piece of cake.

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