Lexical+Categories

=Lexical Categories (Parts of Speech) by Melissa Belsis= This way of putting words in to categories is problematic when using other languages besides English, and even within the English language, but is a good jumping off point for teachers.

Example: The __**car**__ is red.
 * Noun**- a word that refers to names, persons, places, attitudes, ideas, things, qualities, or conditions.

Example: Is this __**someone's**__ notebook?
 * Pronoun**- it replaces a noun with a non-specific reference. (Any, each, all, everyone, some)

Example: It's very __**sunny**__ outside today.
 * Adjective**- a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. The identify a characteristic or a quality of the noun or pronoun.

Example: __**The**__ book on __**the**__ table is mine.
 * Determiner**- words that specify something about a noun. (This, that, these, those.)

Example: She's __**training**__ for the race on Saturday.
 * Verb**- a word that expresses an action, an occurrence, a condition, or a state of being.

Example: I __**have**__ two dollars to spare.
 * Auxiliary**- words and bound morphemes that "help" a verb to express additional information.

Example: **__Today__** is a beautiful day.
 * Adverb**- words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.

Example: My phone is __**on**__ the desk.
 * Preposition**- a word that usually introduce a phrase.

Example: I went to school __**and**__ then to work.
 * Conjunction**- a word that connects words or groups of words.

Example: **__Well__**, maybe tomorrow then?
 * Interjection**- these words are not vital of sentence grammar and can be removed without destroying the grammatical structure of the sentence.

We hopeful all learned these part of grammar when in school, but now when we write sentences and papers we do not look a each individual sentence and break them down into these categories. We simply construct sentences based on the info we need to convey, not looking at how many noun it contains, verbs, or others. But to children who have never written sentences before must learn these concepts in order to produce their thoughts, ideas, and answers as well as they speak.

A video to help is provided below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJ7lqxBBXo