PARTS OF SPEECH

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PARTS OF SPEECH
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NOUNS

• PERSON PLACE THING IDEA

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Examples of Nouns

• People woman, lawyer, Alex, actor, mayor
• Places St. Louis, school, forest, bedroom
• Things shoe, magazine, pizza, crayon,
• Ideas and Feelings happiness, talent, law

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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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Replacing Nouns with Pronouns

• Noun Molly ate cheese.
• Pronoun She ate it.
• Noun Rudy lost the directions.
• Pronoun He lost them

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Personal Pronouns
NOUNS PERSON PLACE THING IDEA
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VERBS
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ACTION VERBS

• SHOWS ACTION
• LINKS SUBJECT TO ANOTHER WORD IN THE SENTENCE

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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
• SMELL, LOOK, TASTE, REMAIN, FEEL, APPEAR, SOUND,
  SEEM, BECOME, GROW, STAND, TURN

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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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Interjection

• 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,