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The Eight Parts of Speech Sheltered English I Biggs & Garcia The Eight Parts of Speech • • • • • • • • Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions Interjections Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 2 Nouns • A word which is a person, place, thing or idea. • Examples: Mount Everest book horse Peter strength car Empire State Building China house child Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 3 Pronouns • A word that is used to take the place of a noun. • Examples: I they ourselves your my who her their itself nobody which we Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 4 Verbs • word that indicates an action, being or state or being. • Examples: play think smell be renounce run study wait drive fill Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 5 Adjectives • A word that is used to describe a noun or pronoun. • Examples: proud French this sad none purple few huge second Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 6 Adverbs • A word that is used to describe a verb which tells how, where, or when something is done. • Examples: carefully very quite rarely often intelligently too never Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 7 Conjunctions • A word that is used to join words or groups of words. • Examples: and but because since or neither while although Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 8 Prepositions • A word used indicating the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word. • Examples: in of after beyond toward until from under across Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 9 Interjections • A single word used to express strong emotion. • Examples: • Wow! • Ah! • Oh! • No! Free powerpoint template: www.brainybetty.com 10
