Parts of Speech

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Parts of Speech

• Eight parts
• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns,
  Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjection

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NOUN

• A noun is a word used to name a person, animal,
  place, thing, or abstract idea.
• Examples
• boy, kitten, park, desk, death

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Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns

• A proper noun is the NAME of a particular person,
  place or thing.
• A common noun is the name of any one or more than
  one person, place or thing.
• For example
• school is a common noun
• Mercy Vocational High School is a proper noun
• ALL PROPER NOUNS GET CAPITALIZED!!

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VERB

• A verb is an ACTION word
• It is what the subject of the sentences is DOING
• Examples
• is, work, smell, do, hold,

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Rule

• Every sentence must have both a noun and a verb
• Example The simplest sentences is
• I am.

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ADJECTIVE

• An adjective is a word that DESCRIBES a noun.
• It usually come before the word that it describes
• Examples
• beautiful, scary, mean, many, few

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ADVERB

• An adverb is a word that describes a verb
• It usually shows HOW something is done
• For example
• slowly, quickly, etc
• It also can describe an adjective
• For example
• He is very fast.

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PRONOUN

• A pronoun can replace a specific noun to make the
  sentence less repetitive.
• Examples
• he, she, I, you, we, they, it

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Conjunction

• A conjunction is a word that connects two phrases
  in a sentence.
• For example
• and, but, or, yet, for, nor, so
• because, before, since

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Preposition

• A preposition is a word that links nouns or
  pronoun to other words in a sentence.
• Many times it explains distance or space
• Example
• The book was on the table.

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• about, above, across, after, against,
  along, among, around, at, before, behind,
  below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but,
  by, despite, down, during, except, for,
  from, in, inside, into, like, near, of,
  off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past,
  since, through, throughout, till, to,
  toward, under, underneath, until, up, upon,
  with, within, without

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Interjection

• An interjection is an exclamation that shows
  emotion.
• It is not necessary for the meaning of the
  sentence.
• Examples Ouch! Yippee! Aw!

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What are the parts of speech?

• Sally went to the shore because
• it was very hot on Tuesday.

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What are the parts of speech?

• Tonight we are going to the
• movies and we are really
• excited to see Twilight.