PARTS OF THE SPEECH

NOUN
A noun can be a person, thing or idea we are talking about in a sentence.

Examples: Teacher, Boy, David, School, Bathroom, Australia, Pen, Moon, Toilet, etc.

VERB
Word that expresses either an action or a state of being.

Examples: Run, kick, jump, fly, swim, is, am, was, are, etc.

PRONOUN
A word that takes the place of a noun.

Examples: He, him, his, she, her, it etc.

Indefinite examples: Many, few, all, everyone, nobody, anybody, etc.

ADJECTIVE
A word or phrase that describes a noun or pronoun.

Example: Slow, intelligent, weird, lazy, athletic, gigantic, sweet, etc.

ADVERB
A word or phrase that modifies verbs, an adjective or another adverb. They are used
to respond questions such as: How, when, where.

Example (how): Quickly, beautifully, lazily, extravagantly, strangely, etc.

Example (when): Now, yesterday, then, etc.

Example (where): There, here, away, etc.

CONJUNCTION
Words that join words or group or words. They can be Coordinating, Correlative, and
Subordinating.

Example (Coordinating): For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

Example (Correlative): Either/or, Neither/nor, Both/and.

 Example (Subordinating): Before, after, during, until, whereas.

PREPOSITION
Words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a
sentence. Use to express relationships such as: space, time or logic.

Examples (Space): In, below, above, under, outside, within, etc.

Examples (time): during, while, after, at, etc.

Examples (logic): For, of, concerning, despite, etc.

Prepositional phrases
Any phrase that follows a preposition.

Examples

 Daniel blew the horn with the strength of a giant.

(The preposition on this example would be with and of, and what follows next is our
prepositional phrase.)

 Around the corner from my school, there is an Italian restaurant.

(The preposition on this example would be around.)

INTERJECTION
Words used to convey emotion through some kind of exclamation.

Examples: Oh, Ouch, Woah, Blah.