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The Eight Parts of Speech
What are the 8 parts of speech?
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Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
Nouns
• A noun is a word or word group that is used
to name a person, a place, a thing, or an
idea.
– Persons: Alice Walker, Dr. Lacy, women, team
– Places: forest, town, Canada, Grand Rapids
– Things: jewelry, rain, pets, Skylab, Eiffel
Tower
– Ideas: fairness, care, loyalty, idealism, beauty
Nouns
• A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
EX: The bakery has fresh baked goods.
EX: The dog was happy to see me.
EX: Phil Mickelson is a pro golfer.
EX: Love is a beautiful thing
Types of Nouns
• Common Noun – A noun that does not name a
specific person, place, thing, or idea.
house –
EX: The house across the street is vacant.
• Proper Noun – A noun that does name a specific
person, place, thing, or idea.
New York City –
EX: New York City is exciting.
Common Nouns and Proper
Nouns
• A common noun names any one of a group of
persons, places, things, or ideas.
– Does not begin with a capital letter
• A proper noun names a particular person, place,
thing, or idea.
– Begins with a capital letter
Common
Proper
poem
“The Raven”
country
Spain
athlete
Joe Montana
Pronouns
• A pronoun is a word used in place of one or
more nouns or pronouns.
• The word that a pronoun replaces is called
its antecedent.
– EX: Elena read a book and returned it to the
library.
– EX: The models bought themselves new
dresses.
Pronouns
EX: I, me, my, you, your, he, she, it, us, we, they,
them, his, her, their, mine, our, myself, himself,
herself, itself, yourself, themselves, ourselves,
who, whose, whom, anybody, anyone, everybody,
nobody, someone, somebody.
Adjectives
• An adjective is a word that describes a noun
or pronoun.
• It tells what kind, how many, or which one.
• EX: sour limesgreen shirt -
Adjectives
• An adjective is a word used to modify a
noun or pronoun.
• Adjectives answer the questions what kind,
which one, or how many.
• EX: stone house, another one, seven rings,
rushing river, next customer, more money.
Adjectives in Sentences
• An adjective may come before or after the word it
modifies.
– EX: Each one of us brought used books for the auction.
– EX: The blouse, once bright, now looks faded.
– EX: These rare coins are extremely valuable.
• An adjective that follows a linking verb and
modifies the subject of the sentence is called a
predicate adjective.
Verbs
• A verb is a word that shows the action, feeling, or
state of being in a sentence.
Read
Paint
Run
Adverbs
• An adverb describes how the action is performed.
• They tell how much, how often, when and where
something is done.
• The dolphin jumped quickly from the water.
• The man sat alone.
Conjunctions
• A conjunction is a word that joins words or
groups of words together.
• Some examples of conjunctions are: and,
but, or, for, nor, so, yet, although, either,
and also
We ate pizza and drank
soda for dinner.
Prepositions
• A preposition is a word that shows position
or direction.
• Some examples of prepositions are in, out,
under, over, after, out, into, up, down, far,
and between.
EX: She worked at her desk.
EX: The sun was in the sky.
Interjections
• An interjection is a word that shows strong
emotion.
• Some examples are
• Interjections can really liven up a sentence and
help to add voice to your writing.
Now Let’s Review
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A person, place, thing or
idea is a ___.
A word that shows
action is a ____.
A word that connects a
word or group of words
is a _____.
A word that shows
emotion in a sentence is
a ______.
5. A word that describes a
noun or pronoun and
tells how many, which
kind, which one is an
____.
6. A word that describes a
verb is an ______.
7. A word that takes the
place of a noun is a
____.
8. A word that shows
position or directions is a
____.