The workhorses of our language include four major parts of speech: (1) nouns, (2) verbs, (3) adjectives, and (4) adverbs. To this list, we should add some of the pronouns, primarily those denoting people (e.g., he, she, you, they) and some others. These words carry the bulk of your messages. Though some of the others – conjunctions, prepositions, other pronouns and interjections – do contain some meaning, the gist of what you say ordinarily rides on the backs of the working words.

Homework due 9/18/2006

Put a line through all non-working words (non-essential pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections) you may also put a line through any non-working adjectives---"hint" see the symbol