Changing one Part of Speech
into Another
Aim: To
establish already words known to students
At the end of lesson students demonstrate their understanding of parts of
speech by identifying parts of speech in sentences with 80% accuracy and
rewrite by using suffixes.
Notes: Words can be
categorized according to how they work within phrases, clauses or sentences.
These categories, traditionally called parts of speech are now more usually
known as word classes. The traditional parts of speech were of eight kinds,
excluding the two articles (a/an, the). These were nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, and interjections:
Features
of Verbs:
ü
Verb take past or the participle form ( take, took, taken)
ü
Verbs can be preceded by a noun and in many cases followed by a noun
(Raju wrote a book)
ü
Each verb has three or more of
inflexions like the following:
|
Verb |
III person singular |
Present participle |
past |
Past participle |
|
Write Sing cut |
Writes Sings Cuts |
Writing Singing cutting |
Wrote Sang cut |
Written Sung Cut |
Features of Nouns
ü
They form plurals by taking ‘s’
ü
They take possessives
ü
Typically can be preceded
by articles
ü
Noun suffixes can be-ity,
ness, ism, hood, ice, ship, ship etc
1.1. Change the following sentences as
directed without changing their sense:
1. The audience listened to the leader with patience. (Use verb of ‘patience’)
2. At last he succeed in his venture. (Use noun of ‘succeed’)
3.
It is impossible for him to
revert at this stage. (Use noun of
‘revert’)
4.
It is not allowed to slay animals
in the city. (Use Noun of ‘Slay’)
5.
He has made corrections in all of these sentences. (Use
verb of ‘corrections’)
1.2
Change the following sentences as directed without changing their sense:
1.
The
master was astonished that the student refused
the job. (Use noun of ‘refuse’)
2.
He
made an agreement with her to complete the job. (Use verb of ‘agreement’)
3.
They were amused to accept our proposal (Use noun of amused)
4.
A
violent mob appeared at the scene
all of a sudden. ( Use adverb of sudden)
5.
The
boy succeeded in the examination by dint of hard work.(use adverb of ‘succeeded’
1.3
Identify the part of speech of the
words in bold: Some examples are given:
1.
He succeeded in his
attempt.His attempt was successful.His
attempt was crowned with success.
2.
Respect your parents and
teachers. Be respectful to your parents and teachers. (respectful –
adjective)Show respect to your
parents and teachers. (respect – noun)
3.
He works diligently.
(diligently – adverb)He works with diligence.
(diligence – noun)
4.
He died in an instant. (in an
instant – adverb phrase)He died instantly.
5.
He accepted all of our proposals. He accepted all that we
proposed.
6.
This is apparently a good
proposal. This appears to be a good proposal. It is apparent that this is a good proposal.
7.
The performance didn’t give me any amusement. I wasn’t amused by
the performance at all.
8.
No invitation was sent to the mayor. The mayor wasn’t invited.
9.
I do not intend to spend my vacation here. I have no intention to spend my vacation here
