Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections

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Parts of Speech Review
There are 8 parts of speech.
Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs,
Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
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Noun
a person, place, thing or idea Example friend,
love, mansion, courage, extinction, foot,
hamster, time, Paris, school, book, teacher,
ability.
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Pronoun
words that refer/replace nouns Every noun you
can think of can be replaced with a more general
pronoun
Examples
Nouns
Pronouns girl she, her, someone,
somebody friends them, they,
some, their house
it, that
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Adjective

• words that describe (modify) nouns or pronouns
• Add adjectives below
• The ________ boy won the contest.
• She is ________ whenever she is at school.
• _____ is the best way to describe homework.
• We ate a _____ meal before going to the concert.
• Yesterday was the _____ day of my life.

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Verb
Action words forms of to be The Verb tells
what the subject is doing.
Example

1. Mike ran around the backstop.
2. Maria sold her favorite book.
3. I am happy.
4. She is in the attic.
5. We went to the store to buy apples.

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Adverb
words that describe (modify) verbs, adjectives,
or other adverbs They usually answer how, when
or to what degree. They often end in ly.
slowly, perfectly, quickly, very, slightly, etc.
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Preposition
words that show position or direction (Everywhere
a fly can be in relation to a tube!)
On Under Within Of Around Near To For During
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Conjunction
words that connect other words, phrases or
clauses For And Nor But Or Yet So
NeitherNor EitherOr Not Only But Also
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Interjection
words of strong emotion (Usually followed by an
exclamation point.) Hey! Wow! Oops! Well, Whoops!
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Here are some easy tips to remembering some of
the tricky parts of speech

• Adjective and Adverb (ad think
  describesadjectives describe nouns and pronouns,
  adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and adverbs)
• Pronoun (always refers to a noun)
• Preposition (usually tells the position of a
  noun)
• Conjunction (FANBOYS and junction joining
  together)