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PARTS OF SPEECH
In the English language . . .
Parts of speech . . .
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Prepositions
Determiner (Articles)
Conjunctions
Interjections
It is important to
understand that every word
in a sentence has a job to
do, a role in the sentence.
NOUNS
PERSON
PLACE
THING
IDEA
PRONOUNS
A WORD USED IN PLACE
OF A NOUN or NOUN
PHRASE.
I, YOU,SHE, HE, IT
WE, YOU, THEY
ACTION VERBS
SHOWS ACTION
LINKS SUBJECT TO
ANOTHER WORD IN THE
SENTENCE
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
ADJECTIVES
DESCRIBES A NOUN
OR PRONOUN
BEAUTIFUL sunset
ADVERBS
DESCRIBES
VERB,
ADJECTIVE,
ANOTHER
ADVERB,
whole sentence.
SHINING BRIGHTLY
PREPOSITIONS
Used to show
the way in
which other
words are
connected.
IN FRONT OF the cow
DETERMINER Definite article
Indefinite article
Possessives
Demonstrative
Quantifiers
CONJUNCTIONS
CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL
GROUPS OF WORDS
AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET
EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR,
WATER AND ROCKS
WORD OR PHRASE USED TO
EXPRESS STRONG EMOTION
OR SURPRISE
YIKES!
She picked up her XXX.
She picked up her XXX book.
She XXX picked up her book.
She picked up her book XXX.
She picked up her XXX heavy book.
What’s the importance of
knowing the parts of
speech of words?
Identify each word in the
following sentence
The beautiful queen was walking
slowly on the cool lawn, and she
was reading a long book about
knights and kings which she
enjoyed.
SUFFIXES
NOUNS
-tion
-sion
-ence
-ance
-er, -or, -ist
-ment
-ness
ADJECTIVES
-less
-full
-ent
-ant
-al
-ible
-able
ADVERBS
-ly
-ily
-fully