Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection, and Preposition

The Eight Parts of Speech 1 Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, and preposition

What is a NOUN? It is a word that What is an ADJECTIVE? It is a word names a person, place, thing, idea, or that describes a noun or pronoun and quality. answers to the following questions:  Person: boy, teacher, doctor,  Which one? This, that… engineer… **Example: That little girl threw a  Place: Miami, city, supermarket, temper tantrum in the middle of the campsite, kitchen… toy store.  Thing: house, bicycle, truck, ice  What kind? Red, large, cloudy, cream… sneaky… **Example: The UPS  Idea: democracy, truth, fantasy, worker left the large box at my kingdom… doorstep.  Quality: beauty, honesty, boredom,  How many? Six, many, several, caring, love… few… **Example: I have three ********************************* brothers and several pets. What is a PRONOUN? It is a word ********************************* that replaces a noun (the antecedent). What is an ADVERB? It is a word For example: I, you, he, she, it, we, that describes a verb, an adjective, or they, them, their, us, his, her, me, our, another adverb. It answers the following himself, myself, mine, who, yours … questions: A demonstrative pronoun points at  Where? There, outside, inside, something: These, that, this, those away, here…  When? Yesterday, immediately, Here are some examples of how now, later… pronouns are used:  How? Slowly, quickly,  Tucker gave his sister Molly her intelligently… doll.  How often or how long?  The kitten played with its plastic Frequently, twice, sometimes, toy. never…  This is an awful sandwich!  How much? Hardly, extremely, ********************************* too, more, greatly… What is a VERB? It is a word that shows action or just a state of being. Here are some examples of how adverbs  Action: run, swim, jump, taste, fall, are used: throw, shoot . I am really sure that this is a real  State of being: be, appear, seem, diamond. feel . Austin won the match easily. ********************************* . My purse has to be somewhere nearby! . He pounded the drums hard. ********************************* The Eight Parts of Speech 2 Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, and preposition

What is a CONJUNCTION? It is a What is an INTERJECTION? It is a word that joins words or groups of word thrown into a sentence to show words. There are two types of surprise or a strong feeling. Here are conjunctions: coordinates and some common interjections: Oh! Ah! subordinate Ouch! Wow!  No! He did not reveal your secret. ** Here is a list of coordinate  Well, look who’s here. conjunctions: and, but, yet, for, so, or,  Good! I like that. because… Here is a way you can  She shouted, “Fire!” remember them: F A N B O Y S: For,  Oh! We have a flat tire. And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So ** Here is a list of some subordinate ********************************* conjunctions: after, although, if, What is a PREPOSITION? It is a word where, unless, whenever, unless, as, that shows the relationship between a though, until, since… noun and some other word in the ** Correlative conjunctions are paired sentence. conjunctions that balance words:  Sandy went to school. * to school = either…or, neither…nor, not only… but prepositional phrase also  The teacher called upon the student to read. * Upon the student to read Here are some examples: = prepositional phrase o Dinner will not be served until all  The baby crawled under the dinner the guests are here. table. * Under the dinner table = o Because the field was muddy, the prepositional phrase baseball game was canceled.  At the next corner, you will need to o Either Martha or Louise will do the make a right turn. * At the next shopping for the dinner party. corner = prepositional phrase o Louie’s family had been going to Don’s Burgers since he was five Here are some frequently used years old. prepositions: aboard, about, above, o I wanted to help, but she refused across, after, against, along, among, any kind of assistance. around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, ********************************* down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, of, off, on, out, outside, over, pending, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, unto, up, upon, with, within, without…

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