Title CSRN - Day 2 Lessons 1-4 Parts of Speech.pdf ✅

6. Countable Noun - refers to names treated as separate items that can be counted. (i.e., car(s), brother(s), city(ies), etc..) 7. Uncountable Noun / Mass - names that cannot be separated or counted but can be measured. (i.e., milk, weather, knowledge, information, etc.) Pronouns - are words or phrases that you use to replace/substitute other words in a sentence to avoid repetition of words. Kinds: 1. Personal pronouns - they replace nouns representing people. (i.e. “I,” “you,” “he,” “she,” “we,” and “they”) 2. Possessive pronouns - represent a noun and also tell us who owns it. (i.e. “mine,” “yours,” “ours,” "its,” “hers,” “his,” and “theirs”) 3. Reflexive pronouns - refer to another noun or pronoun in the sentence; they reflect action on the noun or pronoun named. (i.e., “myself,” “yourself,” “herself,” “himself,” “itself,” “ourselves,” “themselves"). 4. Intensive pronouns - sometimes called “emphatic pronouns," refer back to another noun or pronoun in the sentence to emphasize or intensify it. (i.e., “myself,” “yourself,” “herself,” “himself,” “itself,” “ourselves,” “themselves"). 5. Relative pronouns - heads a clause that provides additional information to a sentence. (i.e., “which,” “that,” “who,” “whom," and “whose”). 6. Interrogative pronouns - are used to introduce questions. (i.e., “whose,” “which,” “what,” “who,” “whom”) 7. Demonstrative pronouns - represent a noun and indicate whether it is singular or plural and whether it is near or far (including in time). (i.e., “this,” “that,” “these,” “those”)
8. Indefinite pronouns - refer to nouns without being specific. This is the largest group of pronouns. (i.e., all, some, any, several, anyone, nobody, each, both, few, either, none, one, and no one). 9. Reciprocal pronouns - used to complete the actions or feelings that are reciprocated, preceded by the verb. (i.e, “each other,” and “one another”) Verbs - are words expressing action; physical action (to jump), mental action (to guess), states of being (to exist), and condition. It is extremely important. Every sentence requires a verb. Kinds 1. Action verbs - express an activity that a person or thing can do (physical, mental, or state of being) Example: The teacher wrote the announcement. (physical action) She guessed the correct answer. (mental action) Spooky is the prettiest cat in this area. (state of being) 2. Linking verbs - a predicate can either express a condition or join the subject with a word or words. It doesn’t show an action but rather describes the subject. ● Forms of be - is, am, are, was, were. Example: I am twenty-four years old. She is in love. - He was into her. ● Sensory verbs - appear, seem, look, sound, taste, smell, feel, grow. Example: It smells fishy. He looks stressed and uncomfortable. The cat’s fur felt smooth.
Principal Parts of Verbs: Present, Past, and Past Participle. Tense of Verbs - A verb tense consists of two components: a time frame and an aspect. The time frame is divided into the past, present, and future. The aspects of verb tenses refer to the verb's state of action, and they are divided into four: simple, progressive, perfect, and present progressive tenses. a. Simple - actions that take place in the past, present, or future. Example: Dylan plays volleyball. (present simple) Dylan played volleyball. (past simple)