Pertemuan 2 - Nine Parts of Speech

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Intan Asri Nurani

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Purpose of presentation:

 This presentation provides a very basic introduction to


the concept of parts of speech in language. Actually,
the study of parts of speech can be quite complicated
and involved, but the purpose of this presentation is to
give the students a working vocabulary and a way to
improve their grasp of grammar.

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In the English language . . .
 There are nine parts of speech . . .
 Nouns
 Verbs
It is important to
 Pronouns understand that every word
 Adjectives in a sentence has a job to
do, a role in the sentence.
 Adverbs
 Conjunctions
 Articles
 Prepositions
 Interjections
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Noun:person, place,thing or quality

 Person: Mr. Garcia likes to eat spinach.

 Place: Mission is an old town.

 Thing: To cook you need a couple of pots.

 Quality: Honesty is a great value to possess.

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Verb: shows action or state
of being
 Action: He was running through the forest.

 State of being: He was sad that particular morning.

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Pronoun: takes the place of
a noun
 Guillermo was studying for the mid-
term exam when he realized that it was
three o’clock in the morning.

 (There are actually many types of


pronouns: personal,
interrogative,demonstrative, indefinite,
relative, possessive, reflexive,
reciprocal)
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Adjective: describes a noun

 The beautiful woman only wanted a couple of pairs of


shoes.

 The rainy day made us even sadder.

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Adverb: describes a verb

 The little girl walked happily through the park.

 The orphan hungrily ate the hot stew.

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Conjunctions: words that join
words, phrases or sentences
 Manuel and Marisol loved to cook.

 You will go to school, or you will fail.

I am happy because I just received my


check.

 It has been cloudy since the morning.


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Article: There are only three articles--the, a , an
(Actually, articles are adjectives and not a
different part of speech)

 The bicycle was not only red but shiny.

 A yellow moon always appears in October.

 An excellent student, Armando passed all his exams.

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Preposition: A word or phrase that shows the relationship
between the noun that it takes as an object and some other
word in the sentence.

 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

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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.

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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 which she
enjoyed.

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 The beautiful queen was walking slowly
article adjective noun verb verb
adverb

 on the cool lawn, and she was reading a


preposition article adjective noun conjunction pronoun verb verb
article

 long book about knights and kings which


 adjective noun preposition noun conjunction noun
preposition

 she enjoyed.
 Pronoun verb

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Assignment: Identify parts of
speech
1. The queen knew that 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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