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Word Types
Noun
Adjective
Nouns are naming
Adjectives are describing
words they give a word words they tell you more
about a noun.
for anything you can see,
touch or imagine.
Examples:
car, tree, dog, London,
door, carpet, forest, frog,
pond, knife, Billy …
Verb
Examples:
red, old, angry, big,
fantastic, hairy, creepy,
lazy, murky, sharp, crazy …
Adverb
Verbs are doing or being Adverbs describes more
words. They tell us
about a verb. It tells you
how, where or when a
about;
verb happens. It can also
an action, e.g. run, hit
tell you more about an
an event, e.g. rain,
adjective.
happen..
a state, e.g. have, seem,
Examples:
appear..
or a change, e.g. become,
grow..
properly, quickly, here, there,
yesterday, later, very, badly..
Connective
Pronouns
A conjunction joins two
parts of a sentence.
These can take the place
of nouns:
he, she, it, you, him, they …
Examples:
and, or, but…
after, although, because,
before, while, whether,
when, until, so that,
unless…
Prepositions
These tell us about
position:
to, in, on, at, with, by, over,
before, up, of, for, like …