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The 8 Parts of Speech
Nouns
A noun is a person, a place, thing, or idea.
Ex. Jimmy read a book in the park. Jimmy is a noun because it is a person’s name.Book is a noun because it is a thing. Park is a noun because it is a place.
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
Ex. John rode on John’s tractor. New sentence: John rode on his tractor. His takes the place of John’s to make the sentence sound better.
Adjectives
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun.
Ex. The tall man went into the restaurant. Tall is an adjective. It modifies a noun, man.
Verbs
A verb is a word that shows action or state of being.
Ex. Mary sleeps on the couch.Sleeps is a verb because it shows Mary’s action.
Ex: Mary is on the couch. Is is also a verb because it shows Mary’s state of
being.
Adverbs
An adverb modifies a verb, adjective or adverb and can tell how, when, or where an action happened. Adverbs often end in ‘-ly.’
Ex. Jason quickly read the book.How did Jason read? Quickly.
Conjunctions/ FANBOYS
Conjunctions link words, phrases, and clauses. Remember an independence clause is an entire sentence.
Conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
Ex. Grapes are purple or green. Or is the conjunction. It links purple and green.
Prepositions
Prepositions are words that show the relationship between words.
Prepositions specify place, direction or time.
Ex. The ball rolled under the table. Under is a preposition because it specifies place.
Interjections
Interjections expresses emotions. They are at the beginning of a
sentence followed by ! or ,
Ex. Sorry, I didn’t mean to step on your toe. Sorry is an interjection. It is at the beginning of the sentence and it expresses a feeling.
Let’s do a few examples. Identify the part of speech of the underlined word.
The fat cat ate, yet another, cookie from the table.
Preposition: place.
The house on Mango street burned down Saturday.
Noun
The little cup looked ridiculous in his huge hands.
Adjective
“Yes! I’ll go to prom with you,” she said, making it awkward because he never asked.
Interjection
I’ve waited for pickles, yet no one has brought me pickles.
Conjunction
She is 97 years old, but she doesn’t look a day over 90.
Adjective
They don’t need a new car.
Pronoun
The kids looked over the fence to see the dead skunk.
Verb
The clown jumped into the crowd and skillfully twisted balloon animals.
Adverb
Let’s step it up. There will be 2 underlined words.
Identify both.
Basketball and football are both team sports.
Conjunction and Adjective
Wow! You binge watched four seasons on Netflix this weekend!
Adverb and Adjective
The Avengers fly through the city saving lives.
Preposition and Noun
What! You never told me he broke up with you!!
Interjection and Pronoun
Slowly he turned and ran from the killer.
Adverb and Conjunction
College basketball fans can get crazy on TV.
Adjective and Verb
Students who leave school before 3:48 need a note.
Preposition and Verb
Government officials rarely pay for parking downtown.
Adjective and Adverb
He said what to her about who???
Pronoun and Pronoun
Michael Jordan never wanted to be the star; he just wanted to hear the cheering crowd.
Adverb and Adjective
Who pushed the trash under the desk?
Pronoun and Preposition
Daniel can perfectly nail a foreign accent.
Adverb and Verb
The Champe Scooter Squad and Freedom Rollerblade Buddies fought it out in the park Friday night, and only one team walked away.
Preposition and Conjunction
The running man was a popular dance back in my day.
Adjective and Noun
We will not rest until everyone learns part of speech.
Adverb and Preposition
NO!! Let me rest!!
Interjection and Pronoun
My toes completely froze off this weekend, so now I tip forward when I walk.
Adverb and Conjunction
The class of 2019 rocks parts of speech.
Noun and Preposition
Last One! I swear.
Interjection, Pronoun, and Verb
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