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Check Your Grammar!

Susan K. Pittman
Bonnie Vondracek
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Objectives
1. To identify the eight basic parts of speech
and provide examples
2. To apply strategies in the classroom
dealing with the eight parts of speech
3. To develop correct sentence structure with
your students
Check Your Grammar!
Eight Parts of Speech
Nouns
Adjectives
Conjunctions
Interjections
Word that names
A Person
An Idea
A Thing
A Place
Kinds of Nouns
Common Nouns
boy
girl
Proper Nouns
John
Mary
Singular Nouns
boy
girl
Plural Nouns
boys
girls
Singular Possessive
boys
girls
Plural Possessive
boys
girls
A word that expresses action or
otherwise helps to make a
statement
Action
be verbs
taste
feel
sound
look
appear
become
seem
grow
remain
stay
Kinds of Verbs
Action verbs express mental or physical action.

He rode the horse to victory.

Linking verbs make a statement by connecting the
subject with a word that describes or explains it.


He has been sick.

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You cant have a sentence without a verb,
but you can have a sentence without a noun!

The pronoun is a word used in place of one or more nouns.
It may stand for a person, place, thing, or idea.
Indefinite Pronouns
anybody
each
either
none
someone, one, etc.
Parts of Speech: Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
Almost anything a noun can do, a pronoun can do, too.
Pronouns are handy little words because when you use
them, you dont have to keep repeating nouns all the
time.
Possessive pronouns take place of possessive nouns
(nouns that show ownership). Examples: my, your, its,
our, hers, theirs.
Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
Did you lose your address book?
Is that a wool sweater?
Just give me five minutes.
Answers these questions:
Which?
What kind?
How many?
Modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another
adverb.
Answers the questions:
How? (He ran quickly.)
When? (She left yesterday.)
Where? (We went there.)
To what degree or how much? (It was too hot.)

Interrogative adverbs introduce questions how, when,
where, how often.
How did you break your leg? When is the plane leaving?
A Walk with Goldie
Build a Sentence

Goldilocks is walking.
Goldilocks is walking quickly.
Goldilocks is walking quickly today.
Goldilocks is walking quickly everywhere today .
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere
today.


A preposition introduces a noun, pronoun, phrase,
or clause functioning in the sentence as a noun. The
word or word group that the preposition introduces is
its object.


They received a postcard from Bobby telling

about his trip to Canada.
Four Important Things About
Prepositions
A prepositions tells:

1. Where something is (location)
2. Where something is going (direction)
3. When something happens (time)
4. The relationship between a noun or a
pronoun and another word in a sentence




Some Common Prepositions
aboard behind from throughout
about below in to
above beneath into toward
across beside like under
after between of underneath
against beyond off until
along by on up
among Down over upon
around during past with
at except since within
before for through without
Remember, the preposition never stands alone!
Back to Goldie


Goldilocks is walking.
Goldilocks is walking quickly.
Goldilocks is walking quickly today.
Goldilocks is walking quickly everywhere today
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere
today.
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere
today in the woods.


or
but
A conjunction is a word that joins words or
groups of words.


Goldie Continues


Goldilocks is walking.
Goldilocks is walking quickly.
Goldilocks is walking quickly today.
Goldilocks is walking quickly everywhere
today
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere
today.
Goldilocks is walking very quickly
everywhere today in the woods.
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere
today in the woods, but it is getting dark.


An interjection is an exclamatory word that
expresses feelings or emotions such as excitement,
happiness, horror, shock, sadness, pain, anger, and
disgust. They add punch or energy to ones writing,
but dont use them too much. When you overdo
interjections, they lose their power.

Wow! Look at that sunset!


Goodness! She is such a beautiful baby.



Goldie Revived

Goldilocks is walking.
Goldilocks is walking quickly.
Goldilocks is walking quickly today.
Goldilocks is walking quickly everywhere today
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere today.
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere today in
the woods.
Goldilocks is walking very quickly everywhere today in
the woods, but it is getting dark.
Goldilocks is walking very quietly everywhere today in
the woods, but it is getting dark. Yikes!

Check Your Grammar!

Types of Sentences
Declarative Sentences (statements)
There will be a grammar test next class.
Interrogative Sentence (questions)
Are you ready for the grammar test?
Imperative Sentence (requests and
commands)
Dont forget to review your notes and
course pack.
Exclamatory Sentence (exclamations)
Study!
KABOOM!
Why Do I Need to Know That?
The Five Basic Patterns
S + V
S + V + SC
S + V + DO
S + V + IO + DO
S + V + DO + OC
The Five Basic Patterns
S + V The simplest of the sentence
patterns has a subject and verb without a
direct object or subject compliment.
Prepositional phrases can be included.
Examples:
I swim. Joe swims. They swam.
The development of wind power practically
ceased until the early 1970s.
The Five Basic Patterns
S + V + SC This pattern generally uses
the linking verb - any form of the to be verb
without an action verb.
Examples:
I am busy. Joe became a doctor. They look
sick
The chain reaction is the basis of nuclear
power.
The Five Basic Patterns
S + V + DO Another common sentence
pattern uses the direct object.
Examples:
I drive a car. Joe plays a guitar. They ate
dinner.
Silicon conducts electricity in an unusual
way.
The Five Basic Patterns
S + V + IO + DO This pattern is similar to
the previous one, but there is a person or
thing that receives the action.
Examples:
I gave her a gift. He teaches us English.
We are sending you the balance of the
payment in this letter.

The Five Basic Patterns
S + V + DO + OC This pattern is not as
common, but is worth knowing as it
provides variety through the use of a to
be complement
Examples:
We elected him president. [We elected him
(to be) president.]
The committee declared the new design a
breakthrough in energy efficiency.
The Five Basic Patterns
Check Your Grammar!
Sentence Expansion Another way of teaching sentence writing.

Example: Expand Theres a frog on the log by adding modifiers
(Use the 5 Ws plus one who, what, when, where, why, and how
to create a more effective sentence.)
Sentence: Theres a frog on a log. (Who)
What kind? Small, green
How? Sitting
Where? in the middle of the bog
Why? Due to the heavy, heavy fog

Expanded sentence becomes:
Theres a small, green frog who is sitting on a log in the middle of
the bog due to the heavy, heavy fog.
Nature One Liners
A Sentence Writing Activity
Select a Sentence Pattern and write a sentence
describing the following pictures.
We will view the photographs again and select
a couple of one liners to represent each
photograph.
Check Your Grammar!
The 19 Rules for Good Riting
Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
Just between you and I, case is important.
Verbs has to agree with their subject.
Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped up
into our language.
Don't use no double negatives.
A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
When dangling, don't use participles.
Join clauses good like a conjunction should.
And don't use conjunctions to start sentences.
Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.
About sentence fragments.
The 19 Rules for Good Riting
In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that
we use commas to keep strings apart.
Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
Its important to use apostrophe's right.
Don't abbrev.
Check to see if you any words out.
In my opinion I think that the author when he is
writing should not get into the habit of making use
of too many unnecessary words which he does not
really need.
Then, of course, there's that old one: Never use a
preposition to end a sentence with.
Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
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E-Learning Connections, Inc.

Susan K. Pittman
skptvs@aol.com

Bonnie Vondracek
bv73008@aol.com