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Aim: How can learning the parts of speech improve our grammar or writing? What are the parts of speech? Parts of Speech • Parts of Speech. The parts of speech are: • verb • noun • adjective • adverb • preposition • pronoun • interjection • and conjunction. Noun • Noun. A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. • Example: This time he was aware that it was the club, but his madness knew no caution. (The Call of the Wild by Jack London). Adjective • Adjective. A word that describes. An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun. • Example: Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. (Moby Dick by Herman Melville) Adverb • Adverb. A word that describes a verb, explaining where, when, how, or to what extent. • An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. • Example: The time I spent upon the island is still so horrible a thought to me, that I must pass it lightly over. (Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson). Conjunction • Conjunction. A word that connects words or groups of words. • Examples: and, or, nor, but, yet, for, so. • Example: Every little while he locked me in and went down to the store, three miles, to the ferry, and traded fish and game for whisky, and fetched it home and got drunk and had a good time, and licked me. (Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain). Interjection • Interjection. A word that is used to express strong feeling that is not related grammatically to the rest of the sentence. • Example: Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley). Pronoun • Pronoun. A word that takes the place of one or more nouns. • Example: Do all men kill the things they do not love? (The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare). • Personal pronoun. Refers to a particular person, place, thing, or idea. • Example: I, me, we, us, you, he, him, she, her, it, they, them. Preposition • Preposition. A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence. • Example: I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley). Verb • Verb. A word or words that show the action in the sentence and tell what the subject is doing. Example: A girl learns many things in a New England village. (The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne). Linking Verb • Linking verb. A verb that links the subject with a predicate nominative or a predicate adjective. • Example: is, became, remain, look, appear, seem. • Example: Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent. (Daisy Miller by Henry James).