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The Eight Parts
of Speech
Sheltered English I
Biggs & Garcia
The Eight Parts of Speech
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Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
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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
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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
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Verbs
• word that indicates an action, being or
state or being.
• Examples:
play
think
smell
be
renounce
run
study
wait
drive
fill
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Adjectives
• A word that is used to describe a noun or
pronoun.
• Examples:
proud
French
this
sad
none
purple
few
huge
second
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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
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Conjunctions
• A word that is used to join words or
groups of words.
• Examples:
and
but
because
since
or
neither
while
although
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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
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Interjections
• A single word used to express
strong emotion.
• Examples:
• Wow!
• Ah!
• Oh!
• No!
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