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 preposition in the following sentence: Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is on?
An action... You can DO it!
What is a verb?
These words are used to join together two separate other words or phrases: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
boy, pencil, school, McDonald's, book, teacher
What are nouns?
What is the adjective in the sentence below: The strong athlete helped his team win the game.
What is strong?
This term 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 noun in the following sentence: My dad loves to read.
What is dad?
This term describes a verb
What is an adverb?
This is the job of a preposition...
to show a relationship between nouns (where they are in relation to each other. The lamp on the table. The dog IN the house. The bird beside the car)
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down
What are prepositions? (show where the noun is in relation to another noun.)
What is the pronoun in the sentence below: She was absent from school today.
What is she?
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? (I like apples and pizza. I went to the gym, so I need to shower)
What is the conjunction in the sentence below: I want to play outside today, but it is raining.
What is but?