8 Parts of Speech

Question 1

What is a noun?

Question 2

Definition of a pronoun?

Answer 2

A word that takes the place of a noun.

Question 3

What are the two categories of pronouns and explain them:

Answer 3

Personal pronouns indicate: first, second, or third person: singular or plural: and/or masculine, feminine or neutral gender.

Impersonal pronouns do not reflect these characteristics:

Question 4

Three distinct methods of analyzing speech:

Answer 4

eight parts of speech, diagramming, sentence patterns

Question 5

What is a preposition?

Answer 5

A preposition usually precedes a noun or a pronoun. A preposition is a word (or group of words- prepositional phrase) used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships,

Question 6

What are the most commonly used preopositions?

Answer 6

above, across, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, by, down, from, in, into, near, of, off, on, to, toward, under, upon, with and within.

Question 7

What are some examples of prepositional phrases?

Answer 7

In the fire, on the rocks, against the sky, along the road, across the street, above the shelf, under the clouds, in front of the garden.