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Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech. The 8. Nouns. A person, place, thing, or idea Examples: desk Lindblom puppy democracy. Pronouns. A word that takes the place of a noun Examples: she them ours it. Verbs. An action or state of being Examples: jog been write kill. Adjectives. Modify nouns

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Parts of Speech

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  1. Parts of Speech The 8

  2. Nouns A person, place, thing, or idea Examples: • desk • Lindblom • puppy • democracy

  3. Pronouns A word that takes the place of a noun Examples: • she • them • ours • it

  4. Verbs An action or state of being Examples: • jog • been • write • kill

  5. Adjectives Modify nouns Examples: • Crafty (The crafty dog escaped again!) • content • excellent • ambitious

  6. Adverbs Modify adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs Examples: • feebly • fearlessly • soon • rapidly

  7. Conjunctions A word that connects other words, clauses, phrases, or sentences. Examples: FANBOYS: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Other conjunction examples: because, moreover, therefore, however

  8. Prepositions Used before a noun or pronoun to express a relation to another word or phrase in the sentence. Examples: • under • around • within • after The blanket was on the couch.

  9. Interjections An exclamatory expression of emotion. Examples: • Geez! • Ughhh! • Hooray! • Wow!

  10. Activity • Look at the following words. With a partner, create a sentence with the words. Label the parts of speech for each word in your sentence.

  11. Miley Cyrus. Wow. Above. His. Cat. So.

  12. Under. And. Sat. Happily. Beyonce. She

  13. Before. Holy cow. Hello Kitty. Shiny. Sneezed.

  14. On. But. Justin Timberlake. He. Zoo. Lazily.

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