The 8 Parts of Speech Nouns A person

The 8 Parts of Speech

Nouns A person, place, thing, or idea Examples: • • desk Lindblom puppy democracy

Pronouns A word that takes the place of a noun Examples: • • she them ours it

Verbs An action or state of being Examples: • • jog been write kill

Adjectives Modify nouns Examples: • • Crafty (The crafty dog escaped again!) content excellent ambitious

Adverbs Modify adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs Examples: • • feebly fearlessly soon rapidly

Conjunctions A word that connects other words, clauses, phrases, or sentences. Examples: FANBOYS: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Other conjunction examples: because, moreover, therefore, however

Prepositions Used before a noun or pronoun to express a relation to another word or phrase in the sentence. Examples: • • under around within after The blanket was on the couch.

Interjections An exclamatory expression of emotion. Examples: • Geez! • Ughhh! • Hooray! • Wow!

Activity • Look at the following words. With a partner, create a sentence with the words. Label the parts of speech for each word in your sentence.

• Miley Cyrus. Wow. Above. His. Cat. So.

• Under. And. Sat. Happily. Beyonce. She

• Before. Holy cow. Hello Kitty. Shiny. Sneezed.

• On. But. Justin Timberlake. He. Zoo. Lazily.