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Parts of Speech

This guide covers nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections with definitions, examples, and key distinctions. Ideal for English students seeking clarity on different parts of speech.

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Parts of Speech

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  1. Parts of Speech By: Hailey DeVries Raul Iribe 10-14-10 English honors Period 4

  2. Nouns • Nouns: Person, place, thing, or idea • Common Nouns: Names person, places, things, or ideas that are not capitalized. VS. • Proper Nouns: Name a particular person, place, thing, or idea that is capitalized. • Concrete Nouns: names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the sense ( sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell). VS. • Abstract Nouns: Names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.

  3. Examples

  4. Pronouns • Pronoun: A word that is used in place of one or more nouns in pronouns. • Antecedents: The word a pronoun refers to. • Personal Pronouns: Refers to the one speaking (1st person), the one spoken to (2nd person), or one being spoken to (3rd person). • Demonstrative Pronouns: Used to point out a specific person, place, thing, or idea. • Interrogative Pronouns: Introduces a question.

  5. Examples They HER him

  6. Adjectives • Adjectives: A word use to modify a noun or pronoun. • Demonstrative Adjective: Modifies nouns or pronouns. • Pronouns are replacing nouns while adjectives describe them. • Articles: Are the words a, an, and the.

  7. Examples:

  8. Verbs • Verb: A word that is used to express action or a state of being. • Helping Verbs: Helps the main verb express action or a state of being. • Action verbs: Express either physical or mental action. VS. • Non-action Verbs: Are words that don’t express physical action and only mental.

  9. Examples

  10. Adverb • Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

  11. Adverb Modifying Verbs (examples)

  12. Adverb Modifying Adjectives (example) • Slightly cooler temperature are forecasts. • Mr. Lomazzi is an especially talented chef.

  13. Adverbs Modifying Adverbs (examples) • Calvin is almost never there. • She slept in too late.

  14. Prepositions • Prepositions: A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.

  15. Examples Commonly used prepositions • The Saint Bernard slept near my bed. • The Saint Bernard slept under my bed. • The Saint Bernard slept on my bed. • The Saint Bernard slept beside my bed.

  16. Examples of Compound Prepositions

  17. Conjunctions • Conjunction: a word that joins a word group or words together. • Coordinating conjunctions: Joins word or word groups that are used the same way. • Correlative conjunction: Pairs of conjunctions that are used the same.

  18. Examples

  19. Interjections • Interjection: a word that shows emotion

  20. Example!! THAT’S ALL FOLKS!! Bye! HEY PACHUCO!

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