Magic Lens

What is grammar?

A way of thinking about language.

What are the 4 levels of Analysis?

Level 1: Parts of speech

Level 2: Parts of a sentence

Level 3: Phrases

Level 4: Clauses

How many parts of speech are there?

8

What are they?Level 11. Nouns

2. Pronouns

3. Adjectives

4. Verbs

5. Adverbs

6. Conjunctions

7. Prepositions

8. Interjections

What is a noun?

The name of a person, place, thing, or idea

What is a pronoun?

A word that takes the place of a noun.

Pronoun example

Pronouns are quick little words we say, when we don ’t want to say a whole long noun.

Instead of saying

Robert Louis Stevenson (whew!)

we can just say,

he.

What is a subject pronoun?

Pronouns used for subjects of verbs and subject complements

List the subject pronouns

he sheI you

it theywe

What is an object pronoun?

A pronoun used as direct or indirect

objects, and objects of prepositions

List the object pronouns

me you her

it us them

him

What is an adjective?

A word that modifies a noun or

pronoun.

What is an article?

a

an

the

VERBS

A word that shows action, being, or links a subject to

its subject complement

Action Verbs

• Most verbs show ACTION.

• They say the noun or pronoun is DOING something.

Roberto paddled.

He paddled.

Linking Verbs

But not all verbs are action verbs.

Some verbs are LINKING verbs.

A linking verb is like IS.

It says the subject IS something.

Quackers IS a duck.

IS links duck to Quackers.

Adverbs

Modifies a verb, adjective or other adverbs

Usually ends in –ly

Describes how, how often, when and where.

EXAMPLES: quickly, happily, noisily

The baby cried noisily.How did the baby cry? It cried noisily.

Conjunction

A word that joins two words or two groups of words

Coordinating Conjunctions

and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

Correlative Conjunctions

either. . . or

neither. . . nor

not only. . . but also

Preposition

Shows the relationship between its object and another word in the

sentence

Prepositions

show

POSITION!

In the tent….Under the tent….

Around the tent…..Beside the tent……

On the tent……Beneath the tent……

Examples

Interjection

Shows emotion but has no grammatical function

Let’s try it out…..Label these sentences

The brown dog is Bubba.

He went under the house.

adj adj noun verb: linking noun

The brown dog is Bubba.

He went under the house.pronoun verb:action prep adj noun

Now you write a sentence and have your neighbor label it.

Name the second level of Analysis?

Level 1:

Level 2: Parts of a sentence

Level 3:

Level 4:

How many parts of a sentence are there?

2

What are they?Level 2

1. Subject

2. Predicate

adj adj noun verb: linking noun

The brown dog is Bubba.

Now add the 2nd Level of Analysis

adj adj noun verb: linking noun

The brown dog is Bubba.

2nd Level of Analysis

Complete SUBJECT Complete PREDICATE

He went under the house.pronoun verb:action prep adj noun

Complete Subject Complete Predicate

Now try some on your own. Write 2 sentences and have your neighbor

diagram the 2 levels of Analysis.