Magic Lens. What is grammar?. A way of thinking about language. What are the 4 levels of Analysis?. Level 1: Parts of speech Level 2: Parts of a sentence Level 3: Phrases Level 4: Clauses. How many parts of speech are there?. 8. What are they? Level 1. Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Magic Lens
What is grammar?
A way of thinking about language.
What are the 4 levels of Analysis?
Level 1: Parts of speech
Level 2: Parts of a sentence
Level 3: Phrases
Level 4: Clauses
How many parts of speech are there?
8
What are they?Level 11. Nouns
2. Pronouns
3. Adjectives
4. Verbs
5. Adverbs
6. Conjunctions
7. Prepositions
8. Interjections
What is a noun?
The name of a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a pronoun?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
Pronoun example
Pronouns are quick little words we say, when we don ’t want to say a whole long noun.
Instead of saying
Robert Louis Stevenson (whew!)
we can just say,
he.
What is a subject pronoun?
Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements
List the subject pronouns
he sheI you
it theywe
What is an object pronoun?
A pronoun used as direct or indirect
objects, and objects of prepositions
List the object pronouns
me you her
it us them
him
What is an adjective?
A word that modifies a noun or
pronoun.
What is an article?
a
an
the
VERBS
A word that shows action, being, or links a subject to
its subject complement
Action Verbs
• Most verbs show ACTION.
• They say the noun or pronoun is DOING something.
Roberto paddled.
He paddled.
Linking Verbs
But not all verbs are action verbs.
Some verbs are LINKING verbs.
A linking verb is like IS.
It says the subject IS something.
Quackers IS a duck.
IS links duck to Quackers.
Adverbs
Modifies a verb, adjective or other adverbs
Usually ends in –ly
Describes how, how often, when and where.
EXAMPLES: quickly, happily, noisily
The baby cried noisily.How did the baby cry? It cried noisily.
Conjunction
A word that joins two words or two groups of words
Coordinating Conjunctions
and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet
Correlative Conjunctions
either. . . or
neither. . . nor
not only. . . but also
Preposition
Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the
sentence
Prepositions
show
POSITION!
In the tent….Under the tent….
Around the tent…..Beside the tent……
On the tent……Beneath the tent……
Examples
Interjection
Shows emotion but has no grammatical function
Let’s try it out…..Label these sentences
The brown dog is Bubba.
He went under the house.
adj adj noun verb: linking noun
The brown dog is Bubba.
He went under the house.pronoun verb:action prep adj noun
Now you write a sentence and have your neighbor label it.
Name the second level of Analysis?
Level 1:
Level 2: Parts of a sentence
Level 3:
Level 4:
How many parts of a sentence are there?
2
What are they?Level 2
1. Subject
2. Predicate
adj adj noun verb: linking noun
The brown dog is Bubba.
Now add the 2nd Level of Analysis
adj adj noun verb: linking noun
The brown dog is Bubba.
2nd Level of Analysis
Complete SUBJECT Complete PREDICATE
He went under the house.pronoun verb:action prep adj noun
Complete Subject Complete Predicate
Now try some on your own. Write 2 sentences and have your neighbor