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• Definition:
• Person, Place, Thing, or Concept
• I worked on school work this week.
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Work and week are the nouns in this
sentence. It is tempting to label school
a noun, but in this sentence, school is
not a thing but description for a type of
work.
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• Examples:
• The movie begins with loud explosion.
Movie is a thing as is explosion. Both
are the nouns in this first sentence
• The woman on the poster was looking at
the faces of the people she saw.
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Woman, poster, faces and
people are all nouns in this
sentence.
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• Definition:
• Stand-in for a Person, Place, Thing, or Concept:
• I, He/ She/ It, They, We, You
In the first sentence,
Wendy is a noun.
• Wendy (noun) worked on school work this week.
• She (pronoun) worked on school work this week.
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In the second sentence, she has replaced Wendy.
She stands in for Wendy in the second
sentence.
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• Examples:
In the first sentence, I is a pronoun that stands in
for whomever is speaking. His is a stand in for
whomever owns the car.
• I bought his car at an auction.
• That is their only choice because he has
them over a barrel.
In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the
people who have the choice. Them again refers to those
same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the
choice.
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• Definition:
• Modifies or describes a noun
• Wendy worked on school (adjective) work
this (adjective) week.
School tells us what kind of work and
this tells us which week. Both of
these are adjectives because they
give us the type of noun. They
describe the noun.
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• Examples
• The biggest television in the store was left
on.
• Tennis courts are good.
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• Definition:
• Action
• Can might must may should will are all
helping verbs.
• I was very happy when I woke up this
morning.
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• Examples:
• I bought a car for my brother.
• He drove it to work.
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• Definition:
• Describe the kind of action or the way an action
was performed or modifies an adjective.
• Usually words that end in –ly are adverbs.
• Not, never are adverbs
• I worked quickly the whole weekend.
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Definition:
Connector Words
For And Nor But Or Yet So (FANBOYS)
However Nevertheless
Although
• If you go to the movies, buy some popcorn because that
stuff is great.
• My weekend was very entertaining, and I worked quickly
the whole weekend.
• My weekend was very entertaining, for I worked quickly
the whole weekend.
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Definition:
Location words
In on over under
Location in time: before after during
Location of meaning: of with
• Before the movie, we should go to the
restaurant at the mall.
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• Definition:
• Exclamations!
• Wow
• Swear words
• Wow! That is a nasty cut.
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Example of all 8 parts of speech in a sentence:
Prep.
Adj.
Noun
Adj.
Adj.
Noun
Verb
Adj.
The water in the water hose watered the
lawn because it needed watering.
Noun
Conj.
Verb
Noun
Pronoun
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To further master this concept, click below
for a quiz:
8 Parts of Speech Quiz
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