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Title: 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.
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