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Parts of Speech Notes
Noun: Person, place, thing or idea.
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Anything that affects your five senses is a NOUN!
So. . . .Anything you can see, hear, taste, touch (feel) or smell is a NOUN!
Can you put “a,” “an” or “the” in front of the word?
Verb: They link ideas together, help other verbs OR they show ACTION!
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To find the verb ask “What is being done?”
Look to see what word is hooking things together!
Helping verbs/Auxiliary verbs: There are 23! Am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be,
have, has, had, do, does, did, can could, shall, should, may, might, must, will, would.
Adjective: Describe nouns
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They answer the questions “What kind?” “Which one?” and “How many?”
They can usually fit well into one of these two sentences:
o I see a ______________________ house.
o She was a ___________________ girl.
Adverbs: Words that describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.
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All “ly” words are adverbs
They answer the questions “How?” “When” “Where” and “To what extent?”
Not or n’t are ALWAYS adverbs!
Pronouns: Take the place of nouns
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They are words like he, she, it, they, them, you, I, those, we, her
They may look like nouns because you can touch them, but they don’t NAME a noun, so
they are taking the place of a noun.
 If you can replace the word with a person’s name or a specific thing, it is a pronoun!
Conjunctions: Joining words
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The words and, but, yet, so, or, for, nor are ALWAYS conjunctions.
Prepositions: A group of words working together to provide more information about
things happening in the sentence
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They usually fit in this sentence: The cat is __________ the house or The school is
________________ the road.
 Prepositions get lonely, so they have to work in a phrase. The preposition is always the
first word in the phrase. EX: down the road, about a year, without my mom, etc.
 They sometimes feel like adverbs because they are directional words, but they aren’t
because they can’t stand alone when they are used as a preposition.
Interjections: Words that interrupt a sentence with an emotional outburst.
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These are words we say that interrupt our regular speech pattern!
Like, “OMG! She was cute!” or “Stop! That drink is poison.
Articles: A, An, The are ALWAYS articles!
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How do you find a simple subject?
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Ask “Who or what is doing something?”
How do you find the simple predicate?
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Ask “What are they doing?”