Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech

Noun Pronoun Verb Adverb Adjective Preposition Conjunction Interjection

Noun

A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, or thing.

Noun

Person

Amanda is holding the pumpkin.

Noun

Animal

The tiger is orange and black.

Noun

Place

I want to go to home for Christmas.

Pronoun

A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun.

Pronoun

Did you see David? He has a white ball.

Jennifer is painting a picture. The picture is of her house.

Verb

A verb expresses actions, events or states of being.

Verb

The bunny carries the big carrot.

Isaiah was the first across the finish line.

Adverb

An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".

Adverb

The balloons flew away from the girl.

Adverb

The boy played the drums loudly.

Adjective

Adjectives are descriptive words.

Adjectives

The dog is black.

The sun is yellow and round.

Preposition

A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.

Preposition

Please stand in line until your name is called.

The dog is beside his doghouse.

Conjunction

You can use a conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses.

Conjunction

I ate cake and ice cream.

I like ice cream but not on cold days.

Interjection

An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.

Interjection

Ouch, that hurt!

Hey! Stop making all that noise.