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Parts of Speech
A Quick Review of Grammar!
How many parts of speech are there?
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Noun
Pronoun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Conjunction
Interjection
Preposition
Article
Noun
• A noun is a person, place, or thing
E.g. Ms. Sinclair went to Toronto to buy bagels.
Pronoun
• A word that takes the place of a noun (I, me,
he, she, herself, you, it, they, etc.)
E.g. Joe saw Jill, he waved at her.
Verb
• A word used to describe an action
E.g. The cake tastes delicious
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I’m having breakfast
Adjective
A describing word
*Meant to create a better mental picture, they tell: how many, which one,
what kind
E.g. Mr. Henderson’s oldest son goes to college.
Adverb
• A word used to describe verbs (Less, more,
very, now, then, there, up, down, certainly,
however, etc.)
*Adverbs usually answer the questions: how? When? Where? To what
extent? And many adverbs are formed by adding –ly to an adjective
(e.g. Quickly)
E.g. He walked to the car very slowly.
Conjunction
• Conjunctions join two parts of a sentence and
help to show the connection between the two
parts of the sentence (and, but, because, so,
when, etc.)
E.g. We went home and went straight to bed.
Interjection
• An abrupt remark; an exclamation (ah!, Dear
me! Oh no! Yes! Awesome!)
E.g. Ouch!
Preposition
• A word or phrase that connects a noun or
pronoun to another word in the sentence
(against, about, above, along, among,
between, except, over, through, to, toward, of,
etc.)
• E.g. They drove toward the shoreline.
Article
• A word that defines a noun as specific or
unspecific (i.e. A, An, The)
E.g. The dog ran into the road.
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A cat was lost on Saturday.