Parts of Speech by https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu Writing for College - John Rossow en-us 2020-01-13 17:38:02 UTC 2025-12-23 01:40:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Nouns! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/430900623 Nouns are the names of people, places, things, ideas, and events/acivities. ]]> 2020-01-13 17:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/430900623 Common Nouns jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/430908809 Common nouns are general, and they aren't capitalized.

Examples of this would be words like city, or school. Common nouns aren't specific, they're general and non-specific.]]> 2020-01-13 17:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/430908809 Proper Nouns jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/430909310 Proper nouns are specific, and they are capitalized.

Examples of this would be the name of a city, like Charlottetown, or the name a school, like Holland College.]]> 2020-01-13 17:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/430909310 Pronouns! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433289037 Pronouns replace nouns. The are used for efficiency and to avoid redundancy.]]> 2020-01-18 18:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433289037 Verbs! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433289883 Verbs describe what a subject does.]]> 2020-01-18 18:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433289883 Verb Types jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433290639 Action verbs describe what the subject does.
Linking verbs are forms of "to be," and relate to the five senses.
Helping verbs assist other verbs to give them their tense.]]> 2020-01-18 18:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433290639 Adverbs! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433291407 Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.]]> 2020-01-18 19:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433291407 Adjectives! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433291806 Adjectives give descriptions to nouns and pronouns. ]]> 2020-01-18 19:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433291806 jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433292669 2020-01-18 19:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433292669 Prepositions! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433292969 Prepositions join nouns and pronouns to other words.]]> 2020-01-18 19:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433292969 Conjunctions! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433293007 Conjunctions connect words or groups of words together to form sentences.]]> 2020-01-18 19:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433293007 Interjections! jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433293024 Interjections are words that show strong emotions.]]> 2020-01-18 19:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433293024 jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433293471 2020-01-18 19:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433293471 jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433294816 2020-01-18 19:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433294816 jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433295349 2020-01-18 19:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433295349 Common Examples jrossow1 https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433295403 For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.]]> 2020-01-18 19:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jrossow1/bcsqk20sy3bu/wish/433295403