Parts of SpeechEnglish Language Arts

Grammar Flip Book: The 8* Parts of Speech• Take out four pieces of paper. Let’s make a flip book.• 1 Noun• 2 Verb• 3 Adjective • 4 Adverb• 5 Pronoun• 6 Interjection• 7 Conjunction• 8 Preposition*9 Article (back side)

Noun (red)

• A word used to name a person, place, thing, animal, or idea.

Examples:William, girl, New York, library, ball, Stanley Cup, dog, love

kick the ball

Verb (orange)

• A word that expresses an action or a state of being.

Examples:Action verbs:run, kick, go, think, play, read, stumble, touch

Helping verbs:be, am, is, are, was, were, been, do, does, did, have, has, had, can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, ought, ought to

kick the ball have the ball

Adjective (yellow)

• A word used to describe a noun or pronoun.

Examples:shiny, dangerous, new, bouncy, green, noisy, colorful, wooden

colorful ball

Adverb (green)

• A word that describes and adds information to a verb or a verb phrase. (-ly)

Examples:quickly, soon, very, rather, too, almost, only, quietly

quickly kick the ball

Pronoun (blue)

• A word that takes the place of a noun.

Examples:he, she, them, him, we, you, us, mine, yours, theirs

kick the ball to him

Interjection (purple)

• A word that usually occurs alone and expresses emotion.

Examples:oh, hello, ah, ouch, phew, yuck, hooray, help, er, um, oops

Ouch!

Conjunction (brown)

• A word used to link words and clauses.

Examples:and, but, nor, for, or, so, yet, neither, because

bat and ball

Preposition (pink)

• A word that indicates the relationship between two people or things, usually in terms of where they are.• Hint: Think of a box. (In the box, Around the box, Through the box)Examples:with, under, on, behind, into, over, across

kick the ball behind you

*Article (gray)

• A word used with a noun to refer to a specific person (or someone in general) or thing (or something in general).

Examples:a, an, the

the ball

Parts of speech…putting it all together• Here’s an example of a sentence that uses all of the 8* parts of

speech.

The boy quickly kicked his bouncy ball past a defender, but in his haste he stumbled. Oops!