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Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
NOUNS
A noun is a word or word group that is used to name a person,
a place, a thing, or an idea.
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Compound nouns: living room, Father’s Day, self-control
Common nouns: book, job, story, writer
Proper nouns: Debra Brown, Scrabble, New York City
Concrete nouns: song, hubcap, dog
Abstract nouns: loyalty, dishonor, trust
Collective nouns: audience, family, batch, herd, class
PRONOUNS
A pronoun is a word used in place of one or more nouns or
pronouns.
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Personal pronouns: I you he it they we
Reflexive pronouns: myself yourself themselves
Intensive pronouns: she herself I myself
Demonstrative pronouns: this that these those
Relative pronouns: which that
Interrogative pronouns: who which whose
Indefinite: several nobody few many some
ADJECTIVES
An adjective is a word that is used to modify a noun or pronoun. An
adjective tells what kind, which one, how much, or how many.
• Articles: a an the
• Demonstrative adjectives: this pen that shoe
these papers those desks
• Common adjectives: red petite twenty
• Proper adjectives: African Italian Chinese
VERBS
Express acti on or state of being.
ACTION VERB
Expresses physical
or mental acti vity.
LINKIN G VERB
Expresses state of being and
connects or li nks the subject
to words in the predicate.
HELPING VERB
Helps the main verb express
action or state of being.
TRANSITIVE VERB
Expresses an action
directed toward a noun.
INTRANSITIVE VERB
Expresses acti on without
the action passing to a receiver
or object.
think
seem
was thinking
wrote the answers
thinks well
write
feel
has seemed
sang a song
runs fast
wonder
am
does write
hit the ball
stretched before the race
dream
is
maybe
ordered the book
landed after dark
ADVERBS
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
An adverb tells where, when, how(how often, how long, how much), or to
what extent.
• Adverbs end most commonly in -ly
• Suddenly
• Quickly
• Swiftly
• Slowly
• Adverbs sometimes do not end in -ly
• Not
• Very
• Rather
• Quite
• Too
PREPOSITIONS
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun
or pronoun to another word. They always are found in a
prepositional phrase.
THERE ARE MANY PREPOSTIONS. SEE HOW MANY
ARE POSSIBLE TO USE IN THIS ONE BLANK.
The tree fell ________the house.
toward against near inside beyond
with past over in on by
CONJUNCTIONS
A conjunction is a word that joins
words or word groups.
Coordinating conjunctions: and, or, but
Subordinating conjunctions: when because since so
Correlative conjunctions: either/or neither/nor
INTERJECTIONS EXPRESS EMOTION