Parts of Speech

By: Abdul Malik Nazari

Parts of Speech
• Sentence?
a “group of words” which conveys a complete meaning.
To achieve this purpose, a sentence needs to have different
parts.

Ahmad makes delicious cookies and a cake

for me everyday. Yum!

Can you name all the words in the above sentence?

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Parts of Speech
• Every word you say has a role in a sentence.
• Every word is a part of speech.

• For your words to make sense and to be understood

• you need to use the correct ‘parts of speech’

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 The key parts of speech

Noun Verb

Pronoun Adjective

Adverb Preposition

Conjunction Article Interjection

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Parts of Speech

Adjective
Verb
Noun
Ahmad makes delicious cookies and
Pronoun Adverb
Article
a cake for me everyday. Yum!
Noun Interjection
Preposition
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Noun
A noun is used to name a person,
place, thing, activity, idea or processes.
• Ahmad, My dad, Erbil, Pen
• Love, Rugby, Shorts, Knowledge

• In a sentence, nouns can play the role of:

• Subject • Direct object • Object complement
• Indirect object • Subject complement • Appositive
• Adjective

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 Pronouns
• A pronoun is a word that is used instead of a noun or
noun phrase.
• Look at this example WITHOUT pronouns:
Ahmad is my friend. Ahmad is studying in Kabul University.
Ahmad will complete Ahmad’s final project next year.
• Now look at this example WITH pronouns:
Ahmad is my friend. He is studying in Kabul University.
He will complete his final project next year.
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 Pronouns
• Personal pronouns • Possessive Pron.
• Subjective Pron. • Objective Pron. • Dependent • Independent
• I • Me •
• My Mine
• We • Us • Our • Ours
• You • You • Your • Yours
• She • Her • Her • Hers
• He • Him • His • His
• It • It • Its
• Its
• They • Them • Their
• Whose • Theirs
• Who • Whom • Whose

• The interrogative pronouns for all three persons are the same
• Capitalization and essays
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 Pronouns
• Demonstrative pronouns • Indefinite pronouns
• That • one
• This • other
• These • everybody
• Those • anybody
• Nobody

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Please fill the blank with the best pronoun
• __________ often reads until • __________ is from Ireland.
late at night. • Rory
• He • My friend
• Alan • He
• Mary • This souvenir
• They
• __________ is running up and • Have __________ got a dog,
down the stairs. Mary?
• The cat • Anyone
• She • They
• My brother • Someone
• You • It
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• We enjoy the roses so much. • Are __________ friends or not?
__________ really liven up the garden. • He
• They • She
• Its • We
• Someone • It
• Flowers • My doctor was born in Germany.
• Melissa isn’t an architect; __________ __________ teaches language
is an engineer. lessons in his spare time.
• He • They
• They • It
• It • She
• She • He
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• All of my teachers are • Our friends are athletes. All of
Americans. __________ come __________ are either strong,
from all over the country. fast, or both.
• She • We
• We • They
• They • Them
• Them • You

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