hi welcome to inkvid.com i'm adam in
today's video i'm going to conclude our
look at the parts of speech
now i've made a couple other videos
about nouns and adjectives another one
about verbs and adverbs today we're
going to look at pronouns prepositions
articles and conjunctions okay again
there is one more that's the
interjections like wow and ooh and ah
these are all
self-explanatory i won't look at them so
we're going to start looking at pronouns
now again just before i do that what are
the parts of speech
these are the categories that every
english word falls into so when you have
an english sentence each word belongs to
one part of speech and it's very
important to recognize them so you know
how to use them
in your writing in your speaking and how
to
understand them in your reading okay
so let's start with the pronouns there
are different types of pronouns there
are the personal pronouns and these are
divided into subject pronouns and object
pronouns so i
is a subject pronoun it's going to be
used in the subject position in a
sentence or in a clause okay
i you he she it they
the object just like it sounds is going
to be used in the object position of a
clause or sentence
me
your him her
etc sorry me you
him her
it them okay so it's very important to
understand the position the type and
position of the personal pronouns
and then you have the other pronouns the
adjective pronouns and again very
important to remember that these are
adjectives they will be followed by a
noun
my house
my friend right so this is just an
adjective you still need the noun to go
with it
so my your his her it's uh there okay
possessive
this is now a noun so it's it's used in
the same way as the adjective except
that it's a noun so this house is mine
this friend is mine okay and we're using
it in a different position
so mine yours his hers it's theirs
and reflexive so basically just add self
to all the adjective ones myself
yourself himself herself
etc etc
just remember
themselves okay
so let me write that down
don't forget that you're changing it to
a plural because them is a plural and
yourselves or yourself depending
demonstrative pronouns this that these
those these are talking when you're
talking about pointing at something
these can be used as adjectives or as
nouns depending on how you you're
building your sentence
then you have indefinite pronouns
meaning that you're talking about
people in general or things in general
or places in general
every every person or everybody both of
these are pronouns every all each some
any there are quite a few of these but
they're indefinite means there is not
any particular
one
person place thing relative pronoun so
when you have an adjective clause the
the conjunctions
that begin the clause but that also act
as subjects in that clause in that
relative clause are called relative
pronouns so who which that
etc and then interrogative when you have
a question who did it
right so the who is the interrogative
pronoun so again very important to
understand the words you're looking at
what part of speech they are now a big
reason to understand parts of speech is
because if you're having any problems
with any one particular word that you're
just not sure how it works if you
recognize it's part of speech it's also
much easier to look it up in a grammar
book or online or to ask your teacher
how this part of speech works in general
right and as i mentioned with the other
parts of speech with especially with the
verbs and with the adverbs
you should i highly recommend that you
get yourself a very good grammar book
to learn
all the different pronouns how to use
them when to use them how to adapt them
to whatever context you're working with
then we're going to look at articles
articles are very straightforward
because there's only three of them there
are only three of them
there are the there's a definite
article the
and the indefinite articles ah or n the
difference between a or an is the word
that follows it if the word that follows
it begins with a vowel
and if it begins with a consonant
ah but you also have to be careful it
has to be a consonant or a vowel sound
right so you have
um
a
ufo
although u
is a vowel
the sound is the is a a y a y is a
consonant so a ufo
um
an mri
scan
now and mri why because this is an
acronym we don't say the actual word so
it sounds like m
r
i sort of like that right so you're
going with this sound m e and mri so
keep that in mind now definite
the very simple explanation is specific
indefinite general so the house i know
which house we're talking about
a house could be any house now i know
i'm very much simplifying article use
articles can be very very tricky to
english learners but again you need to
get yourself a good grammar book and
learn all the different rules on how to
use articles
okay but just remember that articles are
part of the speech are a part of speech
and you need to know how to use them and
how to recognize them
when not to use them etc okay so now
let's look at prepositions and
conjunctions okay so now we're going to
look at prepositions and conjunctions
we're going to start with prepositions
so prepositions these are the little
words that you see all over the sentence
and you see them in basically every
sentence and they are called
or they are prepositions but they are
function words
each of these prepositions has a
function some of them have more than one
function some of them have only one
function
again you have to learn how to use them
so for example in
in has more than one function it could
be used to talk about place it could be
used to talk about time for example okay
and what i mean by function words these
prepositions
help you relate or help
the writer the speaker the reader relate
events and time and events and direction
or things and time things and place
so we have direction we have method
so direction two
method
by
time in on at place in on at okay so all
kinds of different functions and a lot
of prepositions so for example of on and
at on
for about to above among with
the list is very long
some of them can be very confusing so
for example i know that a lot of
students have a problem between
four and two now there's a video on
invid actually i made a video about the
difference between four and two which
you can watch didn't understand the
difference but the point is that you
need to study each of these words and
for those of you who are going to be
taking a test for example and you need
to write
the prepositions i've seen so many
mistakes
okay make sure you know how to use the
prepositions because they can change the
meaning of a sentence they're small
words but they're very important words
and again
get a good grammar book that has a lot
of exercises that you can learn how to
use these prepositions okay
next we're going to talk about
conjunctions so there are essentially
two types of conjunctions
coordinating conjunctions where you're
going to be joining two independent
clauses
and but so
excuse me or for yet nor some people
like to remember these by calling it
fanboys
if that helps you remember them that's
fine
four
as a coordinate conjunction a little bit
old-fashioned not used so much anymore
you should still know how to use it
but remember two independent clauses
when you want to join an independent
clause to a dependent clause or
subordinate clause
you're going to use a subordinating
conjunction
when which that although if
and remember subordinating conjunctions
are going to be in three types you're
going to have a noun clause
an adverb clause or an adjective clause
or a complement but again that's always
going to be with that okay
so which conjunction you're going to use
depending on which type of clause you're
going to use and what the purpose of the
clause is right
now
this is all part of parts of speech
if you really need help with
individual aspects of parts of speech if
you need help with articles if you need
help with conjunctions if you need help
with verbs and adverbs
keep in mind that yes a good grammar
book is very useful
but
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