Working with the parts of speech

 They are people, places, things, or ideas
 There are abstract, concrete, common, proper, collective, compound nouns
 Identify the nouns in the following sentences:
 John walked to the store with his brother.
 John, store, and brother are the nouns
 Lexis is a very interesting girl.
 Lexis and girl are the nouns

 Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns and/subjects so that sentences don’t sound so repetitive
 There are the 1 st person (I, me, my, mine, myself, we, our, us), 2 nd person
(you, your, yours), and 3 rd person (he, she, it, him, her, hers, his, its, they, them, their, theirs) pronouns

 There are Demonstrative pronouns: this, that, these, those that point out a specific person, place, or thing
 Interrogative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and what that begin a question
 Relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which that tell more about a noun or subject
 Indirect pronouns: anyone, anybody, you, someone, somebody, everybody, each, others, and more that have no antecedent

 Identify the pronouns in the following sentences:
 You really should clean up your room.
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Yes, “you” and “your” are the pronouns
 When Mr. Victor says that everyone is responsible for their own education, he hopes that his students take this to heart.
 everyone, their, he, and his are all pronouns

 A verb describes an action or state of being
 Verbs are used to show what a noun does or is
 There are action verbs, linking verbs, being verbs, helping verbs to name a few
 Remember, substitute is or are to figure out if the verb is action or linking

 Identify the verbs in the following sentences:
 Mr. Victor speaks rather loudly.
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“speaks” is the verb
 He often moves around his room when he talks.
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“moves” and “talks” are the verbs
 If there is something funny, Mr. Victor laughs along with his students.
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“is” and “laughs” are the verbs