PARTS OF SPEECH - DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES:

Web Source: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html

1. A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.
Examples: people, Heather, teacher, school, comfort, tired

2. A pronoun takes the place of a noun.
Example: he, she, it, you, which, none, they, me, her, him, us, them

3. A verb tells what the subject does.
Example: look, run, bark, shout

4. An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words.
Example: blue, pretty, large, loud

5. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree.
Example: quickly, loudly, boldly, slowly

6. A conjunction joins individual words or phrases.
Example: and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

7. A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.
Example: about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before

8. An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.
Example: Oh no, Ouch, Hey
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A phrase is a group of two or more linked words without a subject and predicate.

A predicate is that part of a sentence that contains the verb.

A sentence contains a subject and a predicate.
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High Frequency Words and Phrases (PowerPoint Slides):
Website Source:http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/keyboarding/resources/presentations.htm

(A) High Frequency Words (500):

Words 1	Words 2	Words 3	Words 4	Words 5
Words 6	Words 7	Words 8	Words 9	Words 10

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(B) High Frequency Phrases (50):

Phrases 1	Phrases 2	Phrases 3	Phrases 4	Phrases 5
Phrases 6	Phrases 7	Phrases 8	Phrases 9	Phrases 10

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(C) Parts of Speech:

Online Tutorial: http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos.htm

Drag and Drop 1	Drag and Drop 2	Drag and Drop 3	Drag and Drop 4	Drag and Drop 5
Drag and Drop 6	Drag and Drop 7	Drag and Drop 8	Drag and Drop 9	Drag and Drop 10

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(D) Nursery Rhyme Rhubarbs:

Humpty Dumpty	Hush a Bye Baby	Itsy Bitsy Spider	Jack Be Nimble	Jack and Jill
London Bridge	Polly Put the Kettle	Simple Simon	This Little Piggy

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(E) Fable Rhubarbs:

The Ant and the Grasshopper	Belling the Cat	The Fox and the Stork
The Fox and the Crow	The Lion and the Mouse	The Wind and the Sun

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(F) Crossword Puzzles - Math Words:

Puzzle (A - C)	Puzzle (D - E)	Puzzle (D - G)	Puzzle (H - M)
Puzzle (M - P)	Puzzle (P - R)	Puzzle (R - X)

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(G) Jumbled Sentences:

Sentence 1	Sentence 2	Sentence 3	Sentence 4	Sentence 5
Sentence 6	Sentence 7	Sentence 8	Sentence 9	Sentence 10

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(H) Paragraph Sequitur:

Cause and Effect	Classification	Comparison	Contrast	Definition
Example	Generalization	Listing	Process Description	Space and Time

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