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Part of Speech How a word is used in a sentence determines its part of speech. |
Definition |
Examples
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Questions we use to
figure out a part of speech |
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Noun |
A word that names a
person, place, thing, idea or process/activity |
Dr. Parsons,
student, professor, rabbits, steak, potatoes, school, house, computer,
swimming (an activity), sewing (an activity) |
Who? What? |
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Pronoun |
A word that takes
the place of a noun |
He, she, it, we,
you, they, him, her, they |
Who? What? |
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Verb |
A word that shows
action or that has the same
meaning as the word “equal” |
Runs, studies,
talks, thinks, sleeps, is, are, was, will be |
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Adjective |
A word that
describes a noun or pronoun |
Ten
fingers Little
money Red
wagon
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How many? Which one? Whose? |
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Adverb |
A word that
describes a verb, adjective or adverb |
Slowly
moved Study today Went home Very
tired |
How? Where? To what extent or
degree? Under what
condition? |
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Conjunction |
A word that
connects or joins words, phrases or sentences |
But, or, so, yet,
for, and, nor, because, when |
Hint for
coordinating conjunctions: Boys Fan (but, or,
yet, so, for, and, nor) |
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Preposition |
A word that
establishes a relationship between two words in the sentence |
In, on, to, from, around, with, for, up, down: the man in the red house The preposition "in" relates the man to the house, showing that the two nouns have something to do with one another. |
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Interjection |
A word that shows
emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point |
Hey! Wow! Oh! |
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