<p> Parts of Speech Cheat Sheet</p><p>NOUN: a person, place, thing, or idea Usually you can put a word “a” or “the” before a noun and it sounds correct.</p><p>VERB: an action word or a “state of being” word (like “jump” or “love”) Some verbs are “to be” verbs (like is, am, are, was, were)</p><p>ADJECTIVE: describes a noun or a pronoun.  Answer the questions: What kind?, How many?, Which ones?  Come before the noun or pronoun they modify (tell you about) – the small dog  Include comparison words like tougher or more wonderful  The articles (a, an, the) are adjectives – because they tell how many</p><p>ADVERB: modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs – (everything but nouns and pronouns)  Answer the questions: How?, When?, Where?, How much?, How often?, Under what condition?, To what degree?  Can be placed anywhere in a sentence  Typically end in –ly  Most common are too, very, not</p><p>PREPOSITION: shows the relation between the object of the preposition and the other words in the sentence. A prepositional phrase has the preposition, the object, and an adjective to describe the object. (Ex. under the table, into the barn, behind the door, to the store, in the yard)</p><p>CONJUNCTION: a word that joins – individual words (and, but, or, nor, so, yet, for) or a group of words (when, because, though, unless, until, etc.)</p><p>INTERJECTION: express strong emotion or surprise. Usually there is an exclamation point or comma after the interjection.</p><p>PRONOUN: takes the place of a noun (Ex. Sara = she, Joe = he, Dog = it, Sara and I = we, Sara and Joe = they)</p><p>Prep adj n adj adv adj n v adv prep adj adj n conj v (After the party), the extremely brown fox jumped quickly (over the red fence) and ran. </p>