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By Mariah Chuprinski PARTS OF SPEECH What is… a Noun? A person, place, thing, or idea Examples: Snow Cookie Mother Common noun: Any person, place, or thing Proper noun: Specific person, place, or thing Always Capitalized What is… A pronoun? A word that stands for a noun Examples: His Her Them Antecedent- The noun for which a pronoun stands Video Types of pronouns Personal- refers to people Demonstrative- points out a specific person, place, or thing (This, that, these, those). Relative- Relay extra information about a noun (That, which, who, whom, whose). Interrogative- Used to begin a a question (What, which, who, whom, whose, where). Indefinite- Refers to people, places, or things, often without specifying which ones (somebody, someone, anybody, everything). What is… An action verb? Tells what action someone or something is performing Examples: Run Jump Walk Infinitive- “To form” of the verb Ex. I need to walk home. What is… A helping verb? Placed before other verbs to form verb phrases The helping verb might not be in front of the main verb “Not” is never part of the verb phrase Be careful with contractions! Examples: Am, is, are, was, were Be, being, been Has, have, had May, might, must Do, did, does Can, could, will Would, shall, should What is… A linking verb? Is like an equal sign in a sentence Verb that connects a subject with a word that describes or identifies it Examples: Become Feel Seem What is… An adjective? A word that modifies or describes a noun Examples: Beautiful Green Immense What is… An article? Indefinite Article- refers to any person, place, or thing A An Definite Article- refers to a specific person, place, or thing The Video What is… An adverb? A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb Usually ends in –ly Answers the questions how, where, when, in what, way, and to what extent Examples: Quickly Slowly Always Video What is… A conjunction? Connects words or groups of words Coordinating- Connects words or phrases of the same kind For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Correlative- Same as coordinating but used in pairs Not only… but also, neither… nor Subordinating- Connects two ideas, makes one idea dependent on the other After, when, although, until What is… A preposition? Relates the noun or pronoun following it to another word Unnecessary part of a sentence Anywhere a cat can go Examples: To During Before Over Video What is… An interjection? Expresses feeling or emotion and functions independently from the rest of the sentence Examples: Wow! Ouch! Hey! video Quiz! What part of speech is the underlined word in this sentence? I walked slowly to school because I was tired. Adjective b. Verb c. Adverb d. Preposition a. Quiz! What part of speech is the underlined word in this sentence? I ate an ice cream pop on the beach. Conjunction b. Article c. Verb d. Preposition a. Quiz! What part of speech is the underlined word in this sentence? The green giant has a very big toe. Helping verb b. Conjunction c. Adjective d. Adverb a.