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Examples and Lists of Parts of Common Speech and Parts of Sentences

PRONOUNS

.Personal Pronouns:

I	me	mine	we	us
our	ours	you	your	they
them	their	theirs	he	him
his	she	her	hers	it
its	myself	himself	herself	itself
yourself	themselves	ourselves

Relative Pronouns:

who

whose

whom

which

what

that

Indefinite Pronouns:

all	both	everything	nobody	several	another
each	few	many	none	some	any
one	many	no one	somebody	anybody	other
most	nothing	someone	anyone	either	most
nothing	everybody	much	something	anything	everyo

Interrogative:

who

whose

whom

which

what

Demonstrative:

this

that

these

those

VERBS

Common Linking Verbs:

is	are	was	were	be	am
smell	look	seem	grow	become	appear
sound	taste	feel	remain	stand

Common auxiliary Verbs:

is	are	was	were	am	been	shall	would	did
must	can	may	have	had	has	do	should	could

.Common irregular verbs and their main parts:

Present Tense	Past Tense	Past Participle
be, am	were, was	been
begin	began	begun
bite	bit	bitten
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
burst	burst	burst
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
dive	dived	dived
do	did	done
drag	dragged	dragged
draw	drew	drawn
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
drown	drowned	drowned
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
fight	fought	fought
flee	fled	fled
flow	flowed	flowed
fly	flew	flown
forsake	forsook	forsaken
freeze	froze	frozen
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown
hang (executed)	hung	hung
hide	hid	hidden, hid
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
lie (recline)	lay	lain
lie (deceive)	lied	lied
raise	raised	raised
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	ran
see	saw	seen
set	set	set
shake	shook	shaken
shine (light)	shone	shone
shine (polish)	shined	shined
show	showed	shown
shrink	shrank	shrunk
sing	sang or sung	sung
sink	sank or sunk	sunk
sit	sat	sat
slay	slew	slain
speak	spoke	spoken
spring	sprang or sprung	sprung
steal	stole	stolen
strive	strove	striven
swear	swore	sworn
swim	swam	swum
swing	swung	swung
take	took	taken
tear	tore	torn
throw	threw	thrown
wake	woke or waked	waked
wear	wore	worn
weave	wove	woven
wring	wrung	wrung
write	wrote	written

ADVERBS

TIME:	today	yesterday	daily	weekly	briefly
PLACE:	there	nearby	yonder	backward	forward
MANNER:	precisely	regularly	regally	smoothly	well
DEGREE:	stubstantially	greatly	entirely	partly	too

Note: Some adverbs can be written without their ly form. When in doubt, use the ly form.

slow, slowly

loud, loudly

fair, fairly

tight, tightly

quick, quickly

.Conjunctive adverbs:

also	besides	for example	however
in addition	then	therefore

.Common adverbs:

well	better	best
badly	worse	worst
fast	faster	fastest
remorsefully	more remorsefully	most remorsefully
passively	less passively	least passively
loudly	really	very

Conjunctive Adverbs:.

Conjunctive adverbs are adverbs used to indicate the relationship between independent clauses.

accordingly	also	anyway	besides
certainly	consequently	conversely	finally
furthermore	hence	however	incidentally
indeed	instead	likewise	meanwhile
move over	nevertheless	next	nonetheless
otherwise	similarly	specifically	still
subsequently	then	therefore	thus

.Prepositions:.

aboard	about	above	according to	across
across from	after	against	along	alongside
alongside of	along with	amid	among	apart from
around	aside from	at	away from	back of
because of	before	behind	below	beneath
beside	besides	between	beyond	but
by	by means of	concerning	considering	despite
down	down from	during	except	except for
excepting	for	from	from among	from between
from under	in	in addition to	on behalf of	in front of
in place of	in regard to	inside	inside of	in spite of
instead of	into	like	near	near to
notwithstanding	of	off	on	on account of
on behalf of	onto	on top of	opposite	out
out of	outside	outside of	over	over to
owing to	past	prior to	regarding	around
round	about	save	since	subsequent to
together with	through	throughout	till	to
toward	under	underneath	until	unto
under	underneath	up	up to	upon
with	within	without

Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Instructions: Study this lesson and learn to recognize common prepositions and prepositional phrases.

A prepositional phrase is a group of words used to modify some other part of a sentence. It has at least two parts, a preposition and an object. There can also be other modifiers in the prepositional phrase.

Prepositions:

of	in	on	by	for	from	with
to	at	above	up	from	near	through
without	beside	with	across	before	into	toward
down	like	under	after

Prepositional Phrases:

like mine	of you	in a red dress
for the moment	on the river	with brown eyes
of soda	with family	into the fire

Different Phrases

Compound Phrases:
to our town and from it
having a cell phone or needing one

Some phrases can act as other parts of speech such as objects

Phrases as Objects:

of me and my mother
carrying apples and oranges
in or near the city

Some phrases can modify other phrases:

Phrases as modifiers:
in a truck, having no lights
with a package, for you

CONJUNCTIONS

Coordinating:

and but or nor for so yet

Correlative:

either, or	neither, nor	not only but also	both, and
whether, or	just, as	just, so	as, so

Subordinating:

after	although	as	as if
as long as	as though	because	before
if	in order that	provided that	since
so	so that	that	though
till	unless	until	when
where	whereas	while

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