Parts Of Speech

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Parts Of Speech by Mind Map: Parts Of Speech

1. Nouns: A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.1. Proper: Name of specific person, place, thing, or idea

1.2. Common: General person, place, thing, or idea.

1.3. Concrete: Occupies space or can be recognized by any sense.

1.4. Abstract: Names an idea, quality, or characteristic.

1.5. Collective: Names a group.

2. Pronouns: A word that takes the place of a noun, a group of words acting as a noun, or another pronoun.

2.1. Personal: I, Me, We, Us, You, He, Him, She, Her, It, They, Them

2.2. Possessive: My, Mine, Our, Ours, Your, Yours, His, Her, Hers, Its, Their, Theirs

2.3. Reflexive: Myself, Ourselves, Yourself, Yourselves, Himself, Herself, Itself, Themselves

2.4. Intensive

2.5. Interrogative: Who, Whose, Whom, What, Which, Whoever, Whomever, Whosever, Whatever, Whichever

2.6. Relative: Who, Whom, What, Which, That, Whoever, Whomever, Whatever, Whichever, Whoseever

2.7. Demonstrative:This, That, These, Those

2.8. Indefinite: All, Another, Any, Anyone, Anybody, Both, Each, Either, Enough, None, Some, Few, Many, Most, One, Nobody, Someone, Other, Several

3. Verbs: A word that expresses action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement.

3.1. Action

3.1.1. Transitive

3.1.2. Intransitive

3.2. Linking

3.2.1. Forms Of Be

3.3. Auxiliary/Helping

3.3.1. Forms Of Be/Have

4. Adjectives: A word that modifies a noun or pronoun by limiting its meaning.

5. Preposition: A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.

5.1. Aboard, About, Above, Across, After, Among, Around, As, At, Before, Below, Beside, Between, But, By, Despite, Down, During, Except, From, For, In, Of, On, Off, Up, Until, Unto, To, Over, Out, Since, Past, Upon, With, Without

6. Adverb: A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its

7. Interjection: A word or phrase that expresses emotion or exclamation.

8. Conjunction: A word or words used to clarify the relationship between clauses of equal weight in a sentence.

8.1. Coordinating

8.1.1. And, But, Or, Nor, For, Yet, So

8.2. Correlative

8.2.1. Both...and, Just as...so, not only...but also, either...or, neither..nor, whether...or

8.3. Subordinating

8.3.1. After, As, As Far As, As If, Because, Before, If, Since, Than, Though, Unless, Until, When