Parts of Speech

What Does Part of Speech Mean?

 Each part of
speech explains not
what the word is
but how the word is
used.
The Eight Parts of Speech
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 Verb
Verb
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 Noun
 Pronoun
 Pronoun
 Adjectives
Adjectives
 Adverbs
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 Prepositions
 Conjunctions
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 interjection
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 Each part of speech explains not what
the word is, but how the word is used.
In fact, the same word can be a noun
in one sentence and a verb or
adjective in the next.
Adverbs
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 Adverb
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 An adverb can modify
a verb, an adjective,
another verb, a
phrase, or a clause.
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 The seamstress
quickly made the
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Example of Adverbs

Carefully
Faithfully
Sincerely
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 Verb
 A verb “is what you
do!”
 I will run, hop, and
skip down the
track.
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 Here come the nouns!
 Noun
 A noun is a person
place or thing.
 Ms. Arruda is going
to Vegas this
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Pronouns
 Pronoun
 A pronoun can
replace the noun or
another pronoun.
 Which show do you
want to see?

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 Personal Pronouns 
 Possessive Personal
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 A personal pronoun Pronouns
refers to specific 
 A
A possessive
possessive pronoun
pronoun indicates
indicates
that
that the
the pronoun
pronoun is
is acting
acting asas aa
person or thing and marker
marker ofof possession
possession and
and
changes its form to defines
defines who
who owns
owns aa particular
particular
indicate person, object
object or
or person.
person.
(mine,
(mine, yours,
yours, hers,
hers, his,
his, its,
its,
number, gender, and


ours
ours theirs)
theirs)
case.
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 Interrogative  An interrogative
Pronouns pronoun is used to
ask questions.
 (who, whom, which,
what and the
compounds formed
with suffix “ever”).
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 Demonstrative
Demonstrative Pronouns
Pronouns
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 A
A demonstrative
demonstrative pronoun
pronoun
points
points toto and
and identifies
identifies aa
noun
noun oror aa pronoun.
pronoun.

 (this,
(this, that,
that, these,
these, and
and
those
those are
are demonstrative
demonstrative
pronouns)
pronouns)

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What about the Adjectives?
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 Adjectives

 An adjective modifies a
noun or pronoun by
describing, identifying,
or qualifying words.
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 The truck-shaped
balloon floated over the
treetops.

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 Conjunctions
 You can use  I ate the pizza and
Conjunctions to link the pasta!
words, phrases, and
clauses.

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Prepositions
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 Prepositions
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 A preposition links
nouns, pronouns, and
phrases to other
words in a sentence.

 (on, against, over,
during, beneath,
beside)
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What is an Interjection?
 Interjections
 An interjection is a
word added to a
sentence to convey
emotion.
 (Ouch!, Hey!)
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Parts of Speech Poem
by Kim Vetter
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 A noun’s the name of anything,
anything,
 As
 As house
house oror garden,
garden, hoop,
hoop, or
or swing.
swing.
 Instead
 Instead ofof nouns
nouns the
the pronouns
pronouns stand-
stand-
 Her
 Her head,
head, your
your face,
face, his
his arm,
arm, my
my hand.
hand.
 Adjectives tell the kind of noun,

 As
 As great,
great, small,
small, pretty,
pretty, white,
white, or
or brown.
brown.
 Verbs
 Verbs tell
tell of
of something
something toto be
be done-
done-
 To read, count, sing, talk, laugh, or run.
 How
 How things
things are
are done
done the
the adverbs
adverbs tell,
tell,
 As slowly, quickly, ill, or well.
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 Conjunctions join the words together, As men and women,
wind
wind or
or weather.
weather.
 The
 The preposition
preposition stands
stands before
before
 A noun, as in or through a door.
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 The interjection shows surprise,

 As
 As Oh!
Oh! How
How Pretty;
Pretty; Ah!
Ah! How
How wise.
wise.
 That’s
That’s why
why we
we learn
learn the
the parts
parts of
of speech
speech
 Which
 Which reading, writing, speaking teach.
 ‘Cause grammar needs to be correct
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 To help you earn the world’s respect.