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Parts of Speech Part 2

What is a Verb?
The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence.

A verb or compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being.

The verb or compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of a sentence.
 

In each of the following sentences, the verb or compound verb is highlighted:
 

Dracula bites his victims on the neck.
 

The Parts of Speech
The eight parts of speech are the building blocks of sentences.  the verb, the noun, the pronoun,

the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used.

Sometimes the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next.

When you learn to use the parts of speech correctly, your sentences will mean just what you want them to mean !

 New English Vocabulary Word of the Day

 Frustrate (verb) [fruhs-treyt] phonetic pronounication

 Using frustrate in a sentence :
 –verb (used with object)

1. To make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify:

The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts  to help him. 
 

2. To disappoint or thwart (a person): a talented woman whom life had frustrated. 

Acronyms

An acronym is a type of abbreviation. It is a word made out of the first letters of other words.

Acronyms do not have periods and they are almost always written in capitals letters.

AWOL - absent without leave

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

OPEC - Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries

PIN - Personal Identification Number

RADAR - Radio Detecting and Ranging

SCUBA - Self-contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

When words mean more than they say !

An Idiom is a phrase with a special meaning.

Often the meaning has very little to do with the actual meanings of the words taken one by one.