Parts of Speech

Nouns and VerbsMs. Fisher

7/2013

Nouns

Nouns can be a person, a place, or a thing.

Nouns

Look at this picture. Can you name all the nouns you see?

Things: Rocks, leaves, water, house

Places: Ocean, beach, home

Can you think of more?

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Nouns

How many nouns can you see in this example?

Picture by neilalderney123 on Flickr

Nouns

More nouns!In this picture:Person: child, man,

womanCan you see any

other nouns?

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Plural Nouns

• Plural nouns just means more than 1 of the noun. Most of the time you can simply add –s or –es to the end of the word.For example: 1 cat, 2 cats. Cats is the plural of

cat.

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Irregular Plural Nouns

• Irregular plural nouns are still nouns that mean more than 1, but you don’t add “s” or “es” to the end.– One example would be a word ending in “f.”

If a word ends in “f” you change the “f” to “ve” and add “s.”

– Sometimes the plural form of a word is a completely different word.

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Picture from Tancread on Flickr

Wolf

Wolves

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Picture from Radagast on Flickr

Mouse

Mice

Verbs

Verbs are action words. They tell you what the nouns are doing.

Verbs

Students is a plural noun. What verbs are the students performing in this picture?

I can see students writing. Writing is a verb.

I can see students thinking. Thinking is a verb.

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Verbs

Picture from Merton Wilton on Flickr

There are lots of people in this picture all doing different things.

What verbs can you see in this picture?

Verb Tenses

• Verbs can be in past, present, or future tense.– For example: The verb is sniff

• Past: The dogs sniffed each other. We just added –ed to the end.

• Present: The dogs are sniffing each other. We added the word “are” and –ing to the end of sniff.

• Future: The dogs will sniff each other. We added the word will.

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Verb Tenses

• Can you change the tense of these sentences by changing the verb?– Change present tense to past tense:

• The man is walking his dog.• The kids are playing outside.• She is whistling a short tune.

– Change past tense to future tense:• He watched his favorite TV show.• She talked to her best friend.• The cat pounced on its toy.

Irregular Verbs

Sometimes adding a word or changing an ending of a verb doesn’t work.

Sometimes changing the tense of a verb means you have to use a completely

different word!

Irregular Verbs

The verb here is fly. Past tense: The bird has flown.

Flown is a different word than fly.The bird flew through the air. Flew is a different word than fly.

Present tense: The bird is flying. We added –ing.

Future tense: The bird will fly. No change to the verb.

For the verb “fly” the irregular verbs are in the past tense.

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Irregular Verbs

The verb here is swim.

The boy swam in the pool.The boy swum in the pool.The boy is swimming in the

pool.The boy will swim in the

pool.

What tenses are each of these sentences in? Where are the irregular verbs?

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Irregular verbs

• More examples– Verb: write Past tenses: written, wrote– Verb: do Past tenses: did, done– Verb: dig Past tense: dug– Verb: build Past tense: built– Verb: break Past tenses: broke, broken– Verb: bite Past tenses: bit, bitten

Can you use these verbs in sentences?

Parts of Speech

You have learned about nouns and verbs. When you use these two parts of speech, you can make simple but effective sentences.