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, bumpy
What are adjectives?
What is the preposition in the following sentence: Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is on?
What are the nouns in the sentence below: My mom took me to McDonalds today to get chocolate chip ice cream.
What are McDonalds, mom, ice cream?
An action or state of being... You can DO it!
What is a verb?
These words are used to connect other words, clauses or phrases: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
boy, pencil, school, McDonald's, book, teacher, Ms. Gulden
What are nouns?
What is the adjective in the sentence below: The strong athlete helped his team win the game.
What is strong?
What is the adjective in the sentence below: You are an amazing student.
What is amazing?
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! Hey!
What are interjections?
What is the noun in the following sentence: My dad loves to read.
What is dad?
What is the interjection in the sentence below: Oops! I forgot to do my homework last night.
What is oops!
Tells how, when, where or to what extent. Also modifies verbs, adverbs and adjectives
What is an adverb?
This is the job of a preposition...
to show a location in relation to something
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down
What are prepositions?
What is the pronoun in the sentence below: She was absent from school today.
What is she?
What is the adverb in the sentence below: After running three miles, I could barely move.
What is barely?
Tells the location of an object
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 conjunction in the sentence below: I want to play outside today, but it is raining.
What is but?
What is the adjective in the sentence below: I went to summer camp in Illinois.
What is summer?