PARTS OF SPEECH

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PARTS OF SPEECH

• The building blocks to writing

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NOUNS

• PERSON PLACE THING IDEA

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PRONOUNS

• A WORD USED IN PLACE OF A NOUN
• I, YOU,SHE, HE, IT
• WE, YOU, THEY

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VERBS
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ACTION VERBS

• SHOWS ACTION
• LINKS SUBJECT TO ANOTHER WORD IN THE SENTENCE
• Examples walks, talks, runs, plays

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LINKING VERBS

• LINKS SUBJECT TO NOUN OR AN ADJECTIVE IN THE
  PREDICATE PART OF THE SENTENCE
• IS, ARE, WAS ,WERE,AM, BEEN
• Examples
• 1. The boy was walking to the
  store.
• 2. The apple pie is cooking in
  
• the oven.
• 3. The football player was
  drinking
• water.

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ADJECTIVES

• DESCRIBES A NOUN OR PRONOUN

BEAUTIFUL sunset
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ADVERBS

• DESCRIBES VERB, ADJECTIVE, ANOTHER ADVERB

SHINING BRIGHTLY
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PREPOSITIONS

• RELATES A NOUN OR PRONOUN TO ANOTHER WORD IN THE
  SENTENCE

IN FRONT OF the cow
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INTERJECTIONS

• WORD OR PHRASE USED TO EXPRESS STRONG EMOTION OR
  SURPRISE

YIKES!
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CONJUNCTIONS
WATER AND ROCKS

• CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL GROUPS OF WORDS
• AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET
• EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR,

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Articles

• An article is a kind of adjective which is always
  used with and gives some information about a
  noun. It is like an adjective. It modifies a
  noun.
• Here are some examples A, An, The
• A book fell on the floor.
• An article is used before a noun.
• The test was easy.