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| The most imprtant thing to remember when working on POS |
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| the function of the word in a sentence |
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| How many parts of speech are there? |
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| to name a person, place, thing, or idea |
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| start with a capital letter |
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| start with a lower case letter |
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| they tell us a noun is coming |
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| to make a noun an adjective |
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| add and appostrophe and s ('s) |
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| suffixes that tell us a word is a noun |
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tion, sion, cion
er, or, ism, ity, ness, ance
ence, ant, ent, ist, ment, ship |
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two words that make up one noun
(water and moccasin = water moccasin |
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| replace a noun in the sentence |
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| the NOUN that the pronoun has replaced |
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| I, you, he, she, it, its, we, they, their, they |
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| Singular Possessive Pronouns |
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| mine, my,yours, your, his, hers, her, its, our, your, their |
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Are Pronouns that end in self
myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves |
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End in -body, -one, -thing
Others include: all, both, each, few, most, several, either, many, any, every, some, none |
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This, that, these. those
ex: Those are tasty cookies.(those is used as a pronoun b/c it is immediately followed by a verb)
Those cookies are tasty. (those is now an adjective describing cookies) |
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Always ask a question
who, whom, which, what, whose, whoever, whomever, whichever, whatever, whosoever |
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Work like a conjunction. they link two clauses.
who, whom, which, what, whose, that, whoever, whomever, whichever, whatever, whosoever
(You can camp with whomever you choose.) |
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modify (change, describe) a noun or a pronoun
Remember: a, an the are pronouns! |
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| show action or a state of being |
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| State of being verbs that do not show action |
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| am, is , are, was, were, be, been, being, become, taste, feel, smell, sound, look, appear, grow, remain, stay, become, seem |
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| Helping Verbs are always followed by another verb |
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| am, is are, was, were, be, being, been, can, could. do, does, did, has, have, had, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would |
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Show movement. They will fit in one of the following phrases:
I will _____________
Yesterday I _____________
I have _____________ |
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change (describe) verbs, adjectives or other adverbs
They answer: when, where, how, how much, how often. |
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| If it ends in -ly it is probably an |
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| Negative words are always |
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| here, there, too, so, now, up, not never, quite, later, then, very, often, seldom, soon, almost |
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Prepostions generally tell of location.
(in the box, on the bed, over the moon) |
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aboard about above across after against
along among around at before behind
below beneath beside between beyond but
by down during except for from in into
like of off over past since through
throughout to toward under underneath
until up upon with within without |
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