mag” 1) Grammar Overview > Parts of Speech Grammar explains the role each type of word plays in a phrase or a sentence: we Tefer to the various word types 25 “Parts lof speech”. There are eight parts of speech in English. Noun: to name a person, @ place, an object 2° idea, or a feeling pronoun: to stand in for anoun Verbs to describe an action or a state of being ‘Adjective: to describe a noun oF 2 pronoun 3 A. Underline the nouns in the following sentences. 1. The restaurant serves Halian food ~ 2, Beauty isin the eye of the beholder. 3, The teacher wrote apoem about friendship. i 4, Where can vou find a better place than this? 5. The house was destroyed in the storm: 6. Inthe end, she was left with o sense of emptiness, B. Complete the paragraph about Ted with pronouns. Bie. ee = On earth ts the gossip about?” wondered Ted. At first, | 2 thought spat sa Somwasithe cone his neighbours were | talking about but soon realized that 4 2 weren't talking about a Ae wos just being too sensitive and had almost made « foo! of 2 ————— Luckily, Ted's sister did not know about Se ena reiwao a potentC. Circle the verbs in the following paragraph. Did you know a monster might be living in a lake in Scotland? Numerous people have reported sightings of the Loch Ness Monster over the years but there has never been any scientific evidence that it really exists. Photographs and videos of the creature have surfaced but many have been revealed to be hoaxes or turned out to be various objects mistaken as the monster. The Loch Ness Monster has not caused any harm to humans and many people still hope to see it. D. Complete the following paragraph about hockey with suitable adjectives. Iris 2 to argue that hockey is not the 2 passion of Canadians. Canada, with its 3 ____ winter weather, is suitable for playing hockey. As early as 1870, 4._______ soldiers stationed in Halifax started playing hockey games on &________ ponds around the city. In 1892, Lord Stanley, the Governor General of Canada, donated a é_ bow! to be awarded to the best Z team. That was the origin of the Stanley Cup.‘the other four parts of speech are: adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Adverb: to modify the meaning of 2 verb, an adjective, or another adverb Preposition: to express the relationship between words Conjunction: to join words or phrases together Interjection: to express emotion oF excitement E. Add adverbs to the following sentences. Use «,” to show where they should be put. ec eee 1, That performance was good. Ithas been a year since we last saw him He was not good at that and did it oddly. ] the slope wos steep and they had to. go. down | as en He nodded and started figuring our now To settle | + the matter. F. Add prepositions to the following paragraph about J.K. Rowling. Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author the immensely popular Harry Potter series, went 22 = ordinary existence 3. —___—_ stardom virtually overnight. The fame Mestowecké net Was 5 her wildest dreams. Asa single parent &_____— little money. Joanne often headed 7. ___— 9 café 8_____ write 2_____— : the wizard and “Muggle” worlds.Complete the following sentences with suitable conjunctions. Both Mom and Dad like the bungalow, _it is rather old plain They were all surprised _______ they never expected me to win. You can'tgo____ _ ______ you finish the work before noon. He declined our offer________ promised ¢ to help us out on weekends. They became impatient__________time ‘was running out. We will have a game of hockey we have time. You can have thisone __ ___ that one not both, Add a suitable interjection to each of the following sentences. Ohno Great Hey Look out — - . ——! Ididn‘trealize it was the teacher; | thought it was Sam ! That’s the longest home run I've seen. fi —___! Let's start right away. —— ~~ ———! That's not the way to do it. ——__ ___! Ourteam won again. —! A truck is coming right at you: ae , — ——__|! It tastes awful. es ——! I dropped the vase. Zs