Parts of Speech 1
What is a pronoun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: A pronoun replaces a noun or another pronouns.
Examples: she, him, myself, I, we, they, us
"Run" is what part of speech in this sentence?
"I run in the sun at the beach"
verb
A word used for an action:
a verb
A word used to describe or modify a noun:
an adjective
What is a common noun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: words for types of things, people, places, such as "dog" that are not in capital letters.
Examples kitten, chair, education
pronoun
A name of a particular person or place. Give 2 examples.
Proper Noun Definition: A name of a particular person or place.
Mr. Smith, Superman, Susie
What is the name of living beings, places, things, or ideas?
Examples: love, hate, country, English
Nouns
Identify the proper nouns in the following sentence:
Mr. Smith lives in Dallas, Texas with his family.
Mr. Smith, Dallas, Texas
What part of speech is an idea
Noun
Them, yourself, mine, her, they, their, them are all examples of what part of speech?
pronouns
What words usually end with -ly and describe how you do something?
adverb
What is an adjective? Give three examples
Identify the adjective in the sentence:
They live in the beautiful house down the street.
beautiful
What is the middle school Math teacher's name ... is it a common or proper noun?
Ms Saari, proper
"Teacher" is what part of speech?
common noun
What is an interjection? Give an example
an exclamation like Wow!
The, a, and an are all examples of...
articles/adjectives
What part of speech are words like over, behind, below
prepositions
Conjunctions