Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech Examples
Sentences, the First
Sentences, the Second
100
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
100
pretty, silly, smart, blue, cold, hard, wooden, smooth
What are adjectives?
100

'Love' is this kind of noun.

What is an abstract noun?

100

What is the noun in the sentence below: My mom took me to Mcdonalds today to get brown ice cream.

What is Mcdonalds?

200

What the subject is doing.

What is an action verb?

200

These words are used to separate two other words or phrases: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

What are coordinate conjunctions?

200
boy, pencil, school, McDonald's, book, teacher
What are nouns?
200
What is the adjective in the sentence below: The strong athlete helped his team win the game.
What is strong?
200
What is the adjective in the sentence below: You are an amazing student!
What is amazing?
300

Describes or modifies nouns and pronouns.

What is an adjective?

300
These words are used to show extreme emotion. They can stand alone as a one-word sentence: Wow! Eek! Yikes!
What are interjections?
300

She/her/hers, they/them/theirs, he/him/his

What are pronouns?

300
What is the noun in the following sentence: My dad loves to read.
What is dad?
300
What is the interjection in the sentence below: Oops! I forgot to do my homework last night.
What is oops!
400

Describes or modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb

What is an adverb?

400

This is the job of a preposition...

What is showing a relationship?

400
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down
What are prepositions?
400
What is the preposition in the following sentence: Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is on?
400
What is the adverb in the sentence below: After running three miles, I could barely move
What is barely?
500
This begins phrases to show a relationship.
What is a preposition?
500

This is the job of an adjective...

What is describing a noun or pronoun?

500
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
500
What is the conjunction in the sentence below: I want to play outside today, but it is raining.
What is but?
500
What is the adjective in the sentence below: I went to summer camp last year.
What is summer?
600

Words that are used before nouns.

What are articles?

600

This describes a subject's state of being. 

What is a linking verb?

600

She's always up before 6 AM.

What is a preposition?

600
What is the pronoun in the sentence below: She was absent from school today.
What is she?
600

What are the correlative conjunctions in the following sentence? Either go big or go home. 

What is either/or?

700

The glue that holds words, phrases, and clauses together.

What are conjunctions?

700

'The' is what kind of article?

What is definite article?

700

Either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also, both/and 

What are correlative conjunctions?

700

What we call the noun after a pronoun replaces it.

What is an antecedent?

700

"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin

What is a conjunction?

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