Parts Of The Speech

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PARTS OF THE SPEECH

MARIA CAMILA AVILA DUANCA

ESCUELA NORMAL SUPERIOR MARIA AUXILIADORA
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CUCUTA
2012

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INTRODUCCION 3

1. THE VERB 42. THE NOUN 5
3. THE PRONOUN 6
4. THE ADJECTIVE 7
5. THE ADVERB8
6. THE PREPOSTION 9
7. THE CONJUNCTION 10
8. THE INTERJECTION 11

INTRODUCCION

Traditionalgrammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next.
English words have been traditionally classified intoeight lexical categories or parts of speech (and are still done so in most dictionaries):
* Noun: any abstract or concrete entity; a person (police officer, Michael), place (coastline, London), thing (necktie, television), idea (happiness), or quality (bravery)
* Pronoun: any substitute for a noun or noun phrase
* Adjective: any qualifier of a noun
* Verb: any action (walk),occurrence (happen), or state of being (be)
* Adverb: any qualifier of an adjective, verb, or other adverb
* Preposition: any establisher of relation and syntactic context
* Conjunction: any syntactic connector
* Interjection: any emotional greeting (or "exclamation")

1. THE VERB

Verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys anaction (bring, read, walk, run,learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments,such as its subject, or object.
The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb or compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. The verb or compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of a sentence.
In each of the following sentences, the verb or compound verb:
Dracula bites his victims on theneck.
The verb "bites" describes the action Dracula takes.
In early October, Giselle will plant twenty tulip bulbs.
Here the compound verb "will plant" describes an action that will take place in the future.

2. THE NOUN

Put simply, a noun is a word used to name a person, place, thing, animal, or abstract idea.
In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whosemembers can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.[1]
Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns may be defined as those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and...