Parts of Speech
A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
in the morning
What is "no"?
Name the noun(s) in this sentence: Jack and Sally enjoy writing stories.
What are Jack, Sally and stories?
What is the verb in this sentence?
Skylar throws a softball at a speed of 90 miles per hour.
What is "throws"?
Name the adjective:
Shelly decided to wear her blue coat to school today.
What is "blue"?
This word provides description of nouns and pronouns.
What is an adjective?
Jeff brought his new book to his book club meeting?
What is "yes?"
Atlanta is the capitol city of Georgia.
What are Atlanta, city, and Georgia?
What are the verbs in this sentence?
I enjoy walking through the park early in the morning.
What are "enjoy" and "walking"?
I enjoy walking through the park in the early morning.
What is "early?"
These words often end with the letters "ly."
What are adverbs?
Why does George want to be a doctor?
What is "yes"?
Joey attends sign language class on Mondays and Thursdays every week.
What are Joey, class, Mondays, Thursdays, week
What are the verbs in this sentence?
Steve feels that he is alone.
What is "feels" and "is"?
Name the adjectives in this sentence?
That car belongs to me.
What is "that"?
These words show actions or a state of mind.
What are verbs?
You are not going to spend all of your money on toys!
Yes.
Freedom should never be taken for granted.
What is "Freedom"?
Name the verb or verbs in this sentence?
I am walking all the way to the college bookstore.
What is "am walking"?
What are the adjectives in this sentence?
There will be fifty people at the graduation party.
What are "fifty" and "graduation"?
What part of speech does the word "of" fall into?
He was painting a picture of the old man.
What is a preposition?
never matters what she says.
What is "no"?
What is the noun in this sentence?
He will be visiting us at Christmas.
What is "Christmas"?
True or false:
The following words are NOT verbs:
am, is, and are
What is "false"?
What is the adjective in this sentence?
Terry is lazy.
What is "lazy"?