Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
The words pretty, silly, smart, blue, cold, hard, wooden, smooth are all this part of speech.
What are adjectives?
What is the preposition in the following sentence? Jeremy has football practice after school.
What is after?
What is subject of the sentence below? My mom took me to Mcdonald's today to get a hot fudge sundae.
What is My mom?
An action
What is a verb?
These words are used to separate two other words or phrases: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
What are conjunctions?
These words boy, pencil, school, McDonald's, book, teacher, are this part of speech.
What are nouns?
What is the adjective in the following sentence? The strong athlete helped his team win the game.
What is strong?
What is the subject of the following sentence? You are an amazing student!
Who is you?
This part of speech describes nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
These words are used to show extreme emotion. They can stand alone as a one-word sentence: Wow! Eek! Yikes!
What are interjections?
Wow! Yikes! Eek! Dang! are examples of this part of speech.
What are interjections?
What are the nouns in the following sentence? My dad loves to read mystery books at night.
What are dad, books, night?
What is the predicate of the following sentence? I forgot to do my homework last night.
What is forgot to do my homework last night?
This is the job of a preposition...
to show a relationship
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down
What are prepositions?
What is the adjective in the predicate of the following sentence? The deafening sound could be heard several miles away.
What is several?
What is the adverb in the following sentence? After running three miles, I could barely move.
What is barely?
This is the job of an adjective...
What is to describe a noun or pronoun
What is the conjunction in the following sentence? Gary was absent because he was ill.
What is because?
What are the adjectives in the following sentence? I went to summer camp last year.
What are summer and last?