PARTS OF SPEECH

VERB

• A verb shows action or the state being
• The action can be physically or mentally
• Examples: She WROTE in her diary
• Action: run, think, dream
• State of being: am, are, was

NOUN

• A noun names...
• Person, place, thing, or idea
• Example: her, playground, food, joy
• The PLAYGROUND was very crowded

ADJECTIVE

• Adjectives describes a noun or a pronoun
• Adjectives tell:
• How many, what kind or which one
• Examples: Sad, purple, five
• Example: The TWO puppies were sleeping.

ADVERB

• An adverb describes:
• Adjectives, a verb, or another adverb
• Examples: pefectly, yesterday, here
• Example:YESTERDAY she walked around the block

PRONOUN

• A pronoun takes place of a noun
• Examples:
• I, me, us, they, we, he, most, that, them, who
• Example: I saw THEM walking down the street

PREPOSITION

• Relates nouns or pronouns to another word in sentence
• Examples:
• About, beside, over, in, from, with
• Example: The paper was ABOUT school.

CONJUNCTION

• A word that conects other words to a group of words
• Examples: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
• Example: She laughed BUT it was not funny at all.

INTERJECTION

• An interjection expresses emotion or feelings
• Examples: Uh-Oh! Ow! Whew! Wow!
• Example: "Uh-Oh!", he said.