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The Eight Parts of Speech in the English Language |
| NOUN: The name of a person, a place, or a thing. Anything. A particular thing is capitalized. |
| PRONOUN: A word that stands in the place of a noun, such as she, he, it, them, they, we, you. |
| VERB: An action word or a being word, which shows actions, or shows being. "go," "run," "is." |
| ADVERB: A word that describes, or limits, or defines a a verb, adjective, or another adverb. "nicely." |
| ADJECTIVE: A word that describes, limits,or defines a noun. "pretty" |
| PREPOSITION: A word that describes the position or place, or qualities of a noun. "for," "to." |
| CONJUNCTION: A word that joins nouns together, the most common being the word, "and." |
| INTERJECTION: A word expressing strong emotion, to yell, or scream a word. "Help!!" |
The eight parts of speech are important.
All of the words of the English language will be found to be one of the eight parts of speech. While the modern students do not spend very much time committing these eight parts of speech to memory, and in thoroughly learning their meanings, the students of old learned them like the back of their hand. Every word or phrase could easily be identified and categorized. You will go a long way in being a good speaker and writer when you understand well the eight parts of speech. |
What does it take to teach a child how to read and do well in school?
It is probably easier to teach a child to read than you might imagine, considering the confusion one finds in the educational establishment. English speech is made up of sounds. These sounds are represented on paper (or on this screen) by symbols we call letters. Letters are combined to make syllables. Syllables are combined to make words. Words make sentences, which the reader will recognize as her or his own speech. These statements of fact apply to all written languages on the face of the earth.
There are millions of words in the English language. English has a larger vocabulary than any other language on earth. These words come from hundreds of languages, which were carried into the early land of the Angles (Angle Land), and into the United States of America, called "the largest melting pot in the world." The largest contributors to "Anglisch" were the languages of the Angles, the Saxons (Anglo-Saxon), the Romans (Latin and one of its predecessors, Greek), the Germans, and the Franks (French). The Romans also lent us the Roman alphabet, which they had borrowed from the Greeks, the Hebrews (and Hittites), and the Indo-Europeans. English is designated by linguists as a Germanic language (The Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes). The core 1000 English words used most frequently be an English-speaking person are still Anglo-Saxon.
The Vikings (Norsemen, North Men, Normans) raided the English Isles over and over again, spreading their language. They conquered Paris and France, and settled in the French coastal region in the 800's and 900's, which became known as Normandy. These north men had a great influence on the French language,and then they went across the English Channel, and did the same thing to the Germanic Anglo-Saxons, starting in 1066 A. D. William the Conqueror gave the British Isles a good mix of Scandinavian, Latin, German, and French. English might well be called a mongrel language. The speakers of the English language were as much a mixed people as was their language, and they became some of the most adventurous, assertive, industrious, and curious, if not to say, aggressive, people the earth has ever known.
The number system came from the Arabs. Their numbering methods were far superior to the numbering system of the Latins. If you disagree, then try multiplying XXVIII times LIV. An interesting pastime can be spend comparing the first ten numerals in the various Indo-European languages. These numbers all seem to have come from the same place, and are called Arabic numerals. I believe the Arabs also invented the concept of the zero, and place value. The zero is one of the most important of number theory.
Place Value The Romans did not do well with their number system, which was great for writing dates in stone. We still use them for dates. But the arithmetic processes suffered because they did not have a good, well-thought-out zero, and place value. The idea of place value means that the place where we put a numeral is as important as the value of the numeral itself. For example:
The numeral "1" looks the same in each example. But it is the zeros that make some of the "ones" worth more than another. |
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