PARTS OF SPEECH

Carlos Daniel Prado Pérez

Angélica Rodríguez

PARTS OF SPEECH

There are 9 categories of words that contain the parts of speech:

• Nouns• Verbs• Adjectives• Adverbs• Pronouns

• Articles• Interjections• Prepositions• Conjunctions

TYPES OF SENTENCES

Simple sentence or independent clause. Contains one subject and at least one verb. A simple sentence is called too an independent

clause.

Compound sentence Contains two independent clauses joined by a

coordinator. A coordinator is remembered from the acronym

FANBOYS, that is: For, And, Not, But, Or, Yet , So.

TYPES OF SENTENCES

Complex sentences These type of sentences have an independent

clause joined by one or more dependent clauses.

They use of subordinators, for instance: until, since, because, even though, while, when, wherever, etc.

A complex sentence requires the use of a coma, unlike compound sentences.

COMPLEX-COMPOUND SENTENCES Compound sentences have at least two independent clauses. Complex sentences have at least one independent clause and one or

more dependent clauses. The following figure contains the general parts of speech.

Word

Phrase

Clause

Clause + Clause

VERBS

A verb is the part of speech that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being.

There are two main kind of verbs: Action verbs. They are observable, for

example: jump, eat, ride, cry

Helping verbs which can be: Modals: should, may, could Auxiliary: have, will, do Linking: be, like, hate, love

VERB STRING

An important category of verbs are the verbs string which are formed by the formula:

Vhelping + Vaction = Vstring

Here, an action verb can be in base form, infinitive,

gerund or past participle. For example: Base form: go Infinitive: to go Gerund or present participle – going Past participle: gone

Verb Strings

Simple/Compound

& Complex

Sentences

Parts of speech

PhrasesClauses

Sentences

DIAGRAM OF PARTS