Parts of Speech
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
pretty, silly, smart, blue, cold, hard, wooden, smooth
What are adjectives?
What is the noun in the following sentence:
Our teacher told us to sit quietly.
What is teacher?
What are the nouns in the sentence below: At the park, we fed the ducks.
What are park and ducks?
An action... You can DO it!
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?
Walmart, Red Robin, Waller Park, John
What are proper nouns?
What is the adjective in the sentence below: The frisky puppy licked my face.
What is frisky?
What is the adjective in the sentence below: The football is flat.
What is flat?
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!
What are interjections?
What is the adverb in the following sentence: We carefully walked across the street.
What is carefully?
What is the interjection in the sentence below: The frightened surfer shouted, "Help!"
What is help?
Describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
This is the job of a preposition...
to show a relationship or position
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down
What are prepositions?
What is the article in the sentence below: We bought a new tire after mine popped.
What is a?
What is the preposition in the sentence below: I put the plug behind the shelf.
What is behind?
This begins phrases to show a relationship.
What is a preposition?
This is the job of an adjective...
What is to describe a noun or pronoun?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
What is the preposition in the sentence below: The toddler hid under the bed.
What is under?
What is the conjunction in the sentence below: We packed buckets and pails for our trip to the beach.
What is and?