ATI TEAS 7 Parts of Speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives and Adverbs, Conjunctions and Prepositions, Verbs and Verb Tenses)

Noun

a person, place, thing, or idea

Example: The little boy drank the milk. (The nouns in the sentence are boy (person) and milk (thing).)

Subject

A subject is part of the sentence that does something

Object

An object is the thing that something is done to

Singular Nouns

A noun is singular when there is only one

Example- Baby

Plural Nouns

A noun is plural when there are two or more

Example- Babies

Rules for making plural nouns

-for most words, ADD -s

-for words that end in -o, -j, -s, -x, -z, -ch, or -sh ADD -es

-for words that end in -y ADD -ies

Common nouns

general words that are written in lowercase

Example- company or "mom"

Proper nouns

specific names that are written with a uppercase

Example- Honda (company name) or your father's name

Concrete nouns

Are people, places, or things that physically exist. We can use our senses to see or hear them.

Example- "She showed me the art she had created in class."

Abstract nouns

These are ideas, qualities, or feelings that we cannot see and might be hard to describe.

Example- "We takled about art"

Collective nouns

refers to a collective group or multiple number of something

Example- "A CLASS of students" or "A FLOCK of birds"

Pronouns

takes place of a noun or refers to a specific noun

Example- he, her, they, them, whom, she, him, its, it, which

Subject pronoun

I, you, he, she, it, we , they

Object Pronoun

me, you, him, her, it ,us, them

Possessive Pronoun

my, mine, your, yours, his, her, hers, its, ours, their, theirs

Relative pronouns

who, whom, whoever, that, which

Adjective

modifies and tells us more about the noun or the pronoun.

Examples- color, numbers, and descriptive words.

Verb

a word to describe an action, state, or physical action.

Adverbs

Describe actions (verbs); often end in -ly

Examples- quickly, heavily

The easiest way to find an adverb in a sentence is to ask these questions.

-Where was something done?

-When was it done?

-How was it done?

-To what extent was it done?

Conjunction

is a connector word. it connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence.

Example- and, so, or

Preposition

These are words that specify how something is related to something else in time and space.

Prepositions show direction, location, and time.

Example- at, by, for, from, in, of, on, to ,with, under, after ,before, up, down, about

Prepositional phase

can serve as various functions in a sentence, such as location, tie, direction, possession, or relationship between different elements.