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This unit covered parts of speech. This is a classification that can be applied to each word in a sentence, based on the purpose and meaning it adds. The basic parts of speech covered were: nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, and prepositions/conjunctions. Most of these can be further broken down into sub-categories, or specific types. Nouns name people, places, things, animals, states, qualities. Adjectives describe nouns. Articles are usually used before most nouns to add additional information in terms of scope or specificity. These can be sub-categorized into definite articles (the) or indefinite articles (a/an). Verbs are generally thought of as action words, verbs can be broken into the subcategories: transitive and intransitive. Their use is dictated by the configuration of subject and object in the sentence. Auxiliary verbs (do, have, and be) are also used to form a tense or expression when combined with past/present participles or infinitives of other verbs. Adverbs add meaning about the quality or state of a verb, and can sometimes modify that verb to a degree. A Gerund is the -ing form of a verb. It can allow a verb to be used the same way as a noun. Pronouns are words that are used in place of more precise nouns. There are several sub-categories, including: personal, possessive, reflexive, and relative. Prepositions show the relationship between a noun or pronoun. The main types are time/date, movement, and place/position. Finally, conjunctions join words or groups in a sentence.
