PARTS OF SPEECH Nouns Prepositions Pronouns Conjunctions Verbs

PARTS OF SPEECH Nouns Prepositions Pronouns Conjunctions Verbs Interjections Adjectives Adverbs

NOUNS • Definition: a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Person: sister, president, child, mother Place: park, zoo, school, city Things: book, banana, car, notebook Ideas: honesty, truth, love, progress

NOUNS… CONTINUED • Common Noun names any person, place, thing or idea. movie • Proper Noun names a specific person, place, thing or idea. President Obama • Concrete Noun names things you can see or touch • Abstract Noun names ideas, qualities, and feelings that can’t be seen or touched.

PRONOUNS • Pronoun- a word that takes the place of one or more nouns. • Personal Pronoun- pronouns that refer to people or things: I, we, she, it, they, you, us, me • Possessive Pronoun- pronouns that show who or what has something: my, your, her, his, its, our, their, mine • ANTECEDENT- the word a pronoun refers to in a sentence. The word antecedent means “going before. ”

PRONOUNS…CONTINUED • Indefinite Pronouns- does not refer to a particular person, place, or thing: another, anybody, anything, each, no one, everything, one, much, nobody, nothing, somebody, someone, something • Interrogative Pronouns- pronouns used to introduce an interrogative sentence: who, whom, which, what, whose • Demonstrative Pronouns- pronoun that points out something: this, these, that, those

VERBS • Action verbs- expresses an action and can be made up of more than one word. shout, have memorized • Physical action verbs examples: arrive, run, dance, sing • Mental action verbs examples: forget, think, appreciate, remember • Helping verbs: be, is, am, are, was, were, have, has, had, do • Linking verbs: be (am, is, are, was, were), become, seem, appear, look, taste, feel, smell, sound, grow, remain, stay

ADJECTIVES • Adjectives- describes people, places, things and ideas. • Describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun only • Proper Adjective: adjective formed from proper nouns: Florida oranges, American history • Articles: a special group of adjectives : a, an, the

ADVERBS • Adverbs- modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb and most are formed by adding –ly to an adjective. • Adverbs may tell how or in what manner an action is done. • May tell where and in what direction an action is done. • Adverbs modify verbs: How- easily, sadly, completely When- soon, now, never Where- here, there, everywhere, above • Adverbs modify adjective: How- extremely, very, quickly To what extent-unusually, quite

PREPOSITIONS • Preposition- a word that relates a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence • Prepositional phrase- a group of words that begins with a [preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun (the object of the preposition)] • Example: • Hang the painting [outside the new auditorium]. • [Between the chair and the table] was a window. • David joined the group [inside the new sports center].

COMMON PREPOSITIONS about above across after as at before behind below beside except for beyond from but (except) in by like near of off outsideover throughout to toward under upon within past without among around inside beneath down into on during onto since through until up

MORE PREPOSITIONS • Some prepositions contain more than one word: according to aside from in front of instead of across from because of in place of on account of along with except for in spite of on top of

CONJUNCTIONS • Coordinating Conjunction- a word used to connect compound parts of a sentence. And, but, or, nor and for- so and yet are used sometimes. • Correlative Conjunction- pairs of words used to connect compound parts of speech. Both…and, either…or, neither…nor, and not only…but also

INTERJECTIONS • Interjection- a word or group of words that express emotion. It has no grammatical connection to other words in the sentence. • Common Interjections: aha ha oops alas hey ouch gee good grief hooray no well wow great oh yes

LABEL EACH WORDS PART OF SPEECH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES. • The duck has soft down on the back. • Good Grief! My favorite restaurant has closed. • The doctor examined the patient and the nurse took notes. • The astronaut cares for his equipment himself.