THE 9 PARTS OF SPEECH

1. NOUN
2.VERB
3. ADJECTIVE
4. ADVERB
5. PRONOUN
6. PREPOSITION
7. CONJUNCTION
8. INTERJECTION
9. DETERMINER
 A WORD THAT NAMES A

NOUN PERSON, PLACE, THING,

ANIMAL OR IDEA
WHAT IS A NOUN? CHOOSE THE NOUN
FROM THE FOLLOWING TWO PICTURES

FROG
THE ONE ON THE RIGHT!

FROG
SOME
IMPORTANT
• Subjects
NOUN JOBS • Direct Objects
• Indirect Objects
• Objects of Prepositions
• Predicate Nouns
SUBJECTS
• Nouns that tell us whom or what a sentence is about.

• Tasia ate cookies.

• Megan teaches yoga.
• The frog ate a fly.
TRANSITIVE ACTIVE VERBS
ONE OF THE FOUR TYPES OF VERBS
• Action verbs that transfer their action to someone or something called a direct object.
• The child kicked the ball
• The direct object in that sentence is ball. The ball is receiving the action of kicked. It is what is
being kicked.

• Find the direct object in the following sentence:

• I ate the melon.
• Since melon is receiving the action of ate, it is the direct object. It is being eaten.
DIRECT OBJECTS
• Nouns that receive the action of certain kinds of verbs (transitive active verbs).
• To find the direct object, ask the following question:What/Whom did the (subject) (verb)?
• Tasia kicked the ball.
• Megan teaches yoga.
• The frog ate a fly.
• The direct object in the first sentence is ball. It is what is being kicked.
• The ball is what (Tasia) (kicked).
• What is the direct object in the third sentence?
 INDIRECT OBJECT
• Nouns (or pronouns) that tell us for whom/what or to whom/what the action of a
transitive active verb is done.
• They are indirectly affected by the action of the verb.
• Megan kicked Tasia the ball
• Moises poured me juice
• Tasia is an IO. It is receiving the direct object (ball).
• Me is an IO. It is receiving the direct object (juice)

• In order or a sentence to have an IO (indirect object), it MUST have a DO (direct

object)
INDIRECT OBJECT (CONT.)

• To find the indirect object, ask the following question.

• (Subject) (verb) the (direct object) to whom/for whom?
• Megan kicked Tasia the ball
• (Megan) (kicked) the (ball) to Tasia
“MISSING” PREPOSITIONS IN INDIRECT OBJECTS

1.Tasia gave me a book

2.Tasia gave a book to me
• These sentences give us the same information, but the second one uses a preposition
(to) and the first one does not.
• Sentences with IOs tell us TO whom/what or FOR whom/what something is done, but
they don’t contain the words to or for. It’s as though these sentences contain “missing”
prepositions.
“MISSING” PREPOSITIONS IN INDIRECT OBJECTS

PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES INDIRECT OBJECTS

• Megan kicked the ball to Tasia. • Megan kicked Tasia the ball.
• Moises poured juice for me. • Moises poured me juice.
• I sang a song for my friend. • A sang my friend a song.
PRACTICE

• To find the indirec

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF NOUNS

• Proper Noun • Collective Noun

• Common Noun • Concrete Noun
• Countable Noun • Noun Phrase
• Uncountable Noun • Pronoun