Welcome to this blog, which you will be using to practice the
parts of speech of English.
You will practice by reading a text to
have knowledge of the topic and to find out what you retained from the text, you will answer a questionnaire ; which you will send to my e-mail after you have answered
it.
E-mail: briseida.estrada@uabc.edu.mx
You will also interact with your
classmates with the activity from image 1(list)
and image 2 (story), that you will print,
fill out using the instructions below and post, once you are finished.
Activity instructions:
In this activity you will ask your
classmate for the parts of speech corresponding to the topic
"CONTEST". Then you will fill out the sheet that has the fill in the
blanks, in the same order of the first sheet; when you are done post the second
sheet with the story.
Tip: don't read the text to your classmate
before fill in it out. Just ask for the words in the order the first page asks
and at the end read the story, it will be more fun!
***DUE DATE ***to e-mail questionnaire and post story: Wednesday, 26, Feb.,2015
***DUE DATE ***to e-mail questionnaire and post story: Wednesday, 26, Feb.,2015
TEXT: parts of speech
You can find this text in the book “The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test
Course”.
We can identify grammatical forms in parts
of speech, grammatical structures and words that contain prefixes and suffixes.
A part of speech or word class
describes how words behave in sentences, how they operate and combine grammatically
with other words.
There are nine parts of speech in English:
nouns, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions
and exclamations.
The table below shows the parts of speech,
examples, and the functions.
Part of speech
|
examples
|
Function(s)
|
Nouns
|
Children
sugar
|
To name people, places, things, qualities, ideas, or activities
to act as the subject/object of the verb.
|
Verbs
|
See
Run
Take off
|
To show an action, state or experience.
|
Adjectives
|
Easy
big
|
To describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun, or
part of a sentence.
|
Adverbs
|
Completely
Yesterday
At the end
|
To say more about how, when, where, etc. something happens by
adding information to adjectives, verbs, other adverbs or sentences.
|
Determiners
|
Me
The
This
both
|
To make clear which noun it is referred to.
|
Prepositions
|
After
at
|
To show the relationship between a noun, noun phrase or pronoun
and another word or phrase.
|
Pronouns
|
She
Mine
myself
|
To replace or refer to a noun or noun phrase mentioned earlier
or about to be mentioned.
|
Conjunctions
|
As
And
but
|
To join words, sentences or parts of sentences.
|
Exclamations
|
Huh
ow
|
To show a (strong) feeling especially in informal spoken
language.
|
To learn more about the English parts of speech go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ7lqxBBXo
