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?
What are they?
Level 1
1. 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
I
you
it
she
he
we
they
What is an object
pronoun?
A pronoun used as
direct or indirect
objects, and objects
of prepositions
List the object pronouns
me
you
it
her
him
us
them
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
Examples
In the tent….
Under the tent….
Around the tent…..
Beside the tent……
On the tent……
Beneath the tent……
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.
The brown dog is Bubba.
adj
adj
noun
verb: linking
noun
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?
What are they?
Level 2
1. Subject
2. Predicate
Now add the 2nd Level of Analysis
The brown dog is Bubba.
adj
adj
noun
verb: linking
noun
2nd Level of Analysis
The brown dog is Bubba.
adj
adj
noun
Complete SUBJECT
verb: linking
noun
Complete
PREDICATE
He went under the house.
pronoun
Complete
Subject
verb:action
prep
adj
Complete Predicate
noun
Now try some on your own.
Write 2 sentences and have
your neighbor diagram the
2 levels of Analysis.