8 Parts of Speech You have already learned

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8 Parts of Speech You have already learned nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Let’s

8 Parts of Speech You have already learned nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Let’s see if you are familiar with the other four parts of speech: prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections. In your notebooks make a list of the following for your Mad. Lib. The number next to the part of speech indicates how many of each word you need. Plural Noun – 1 Interjection – 2 Past tense verb – 2 Preposition - 1 Adverb – 2 Conjunction - 2 Adjective – 3 Pronoun - 3 Proper Noun – 1

Under the Grammar tab of your notebook, copy down the Mad. Lib below, filling

Under the Grammar tab of your notebook, copy down the Mad. Lib below, filling in the words you preselected. 8 Parts of Speech You have already learned nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Let’s see if you are familiar with the other four parts of speech: prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections. (Interjection!) I cannot believe that my first week of high school is behind me, (conjunction) the week (past tense verb) by so (adverb). My best friend (proper noun) and (pronoun) got into a (adjective) fight, (conjunction) everything turned out alright. Lunch was a (noun). The table of (plural noun) (preposition) us were talking really (adverb) about all the (adjective) boys on campus, but (pronoun) just (past tense verb) them. Overall, it was a (adjective) week. (Interjection!)

So, what is the function of those different parts of speech? Pronouns Replace a

So, what is the function of those different parts of speech? Pronouns Replace a noun (he, she, it, they…) Interjections Short exclamation (Ouch! Hi, my name is Alex. Well, I’m not sure. ) Conjunctions. Prepositions Used to join clauses, sentences or words together (and, or, but, so, because…) Links a noun to another word (to, at, on, from, of…)

8 Parts of Speech – Block Day Warm -Up Unscramble the following sentence as

8 Parts of Speech – Block Day Warm -Up Unscramble the following sentence as best you can. Once you think you have it, label the parts of speech. the evil teacher his desk the next morning assigns us Urg! work daily and expects it on by

Unscrambled sentence Int. adj. noun verb pro. noun pro. prep. pro. noun prep. noun

Unscrambled sentence Int. adj. noun verb pro. noun pro. prep. pro. noun prep. noun adv. con. verb Urg! The evil teacher assigns us work daily and expects it on his desk by 8: 00 in the morning.

8 Parts of Speech – Friday Warm-Up Look back at your sentence from yesterday

8 Parts of Speech – Friday Warm-Up Look back at your sentence from yesterday about the evil teacher. It contains all eight parts of speech. Write your own imitation sentence that contains all eight parts of speech. Be sure to label all the parts.