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PARTS OF SPEECH & PARTS OF A SENTENCE (IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE) 8 parts of speech (in english language) Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. But mainly we use the traditional categorization of 5 of speech: NOUN PRONOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB PREPOSITIONS CONJUNCTIONS INTERJECTIONS Examples of other categorizations are: Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech: Lexical Verbs (work, Iike, run) Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must) Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives PONS PP ep adverb conjunction Interjection action or state thing or person describes a noun describes a verb, adjective or adverb replaces a noun links a noun to another word joins clauses or sentences or words short exclamation, sometimes Inserted Into a sentence (to) be, have, do, like, work, 5 Ing, can, must pen, dog, work, music, to wn, London, teacher, Joh a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting quickly, silently, wel badly, very, really 1, you, he, she, some to, at, after, on, but and, but, when ‘ent, oucht, hit, well en eapla saatences: WIKIPEDIA.com is a web site. I like WIKIPEDIA.com. This is my dog. He lives in myhouse. We live in London. My dog Is big. 1 like big dogs. My dog eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly. Yara is Indian. She Is beautiful We went to schoal on Monda v 1 Hike dogs and I like cate. I like cate and doge. I like doge but Idon't ike cats. Ouch! That hurts! Hit How are you? Well, don't know. 7 Basic Sentence Patterns In English 1, SV : 2,SVO Sees [ae a. SNE Vane) 4, SVOO Oe la ' EES) ,0) 6 _C€=Complement BS fs. ees atiines ie LO) nN SUBJECT The subject of 4 Sentence ts the person, place; thing, or idea that is doing something or being something. Egi- ."": \is writing a letter. ae is writing the letter? = Vanka) was also a South Indian. (Who also was a south Indian? = The ring master) AYA d= A Verb is a kind of word that tells about an action OF a State: EG r-Heve) 5 1\¢/the door of the cages (What did he do? J What was his action? ane) The verbs are underlined tn the following sentences With rosy hopes, Vanka went to sleep He had a beautiful dream. bal M i mice tmer- ne OMB M ie ile sr Wola) Lato] e-t-let- Te ¢ Ppeee etal lor Molec tat a) Makarich.was reading the letter to his kitchen maids_ OBJECT QO) yjset Fecewves tie acuvOn © iris Wer | is cifiseroc| by the Vers EG some thiet had removed) jlo ce) ais things. (What had some thief removed ? = most of my things) COMPLEMENT, Subject Complement > --\:/[- 0-5 gldtiy oe iresietin) tiat follows a linking verb to complete the meaning? WE Ae ines the aword that qualifies the direct object to complete the meaning. 5 a bachelor. (The sentence ‘I was....' needs something to completethe meaning.So +~——s isa complement. jer teal=[s ereters to» the subject. So itis a+

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