Definitions I
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
The preposition in the following sentence: Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is on?
The noun in the sentence below: My mom took me to McDonald's today to get brown ice cream.
What is McDonald's?
These words are used to separate two other words or phrases: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are conjunctions?
boy, pencil, school, McDonald's, book, teacher
What are nouns?
The adjective in the following sentence: The strong athlete helped his team win the game.
What is strong?
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?
The noun in the following sentence: My dad loves to read.
What is dad?
The interjection in the sentence below: Oops! I forgot to do my homework last night.
What is oops!
This is the job of a preposition...
to show a relationship
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down
What are prepositions?
The pronoun in the sentence below: She was absent from school today.
What is she?
The adverb in the sentence below: After running three miles, I could barely move
What is barely?
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?
The conjunction in the sentence below: I want to play outside today, but it is raining.
What is but?
The adjective in the sentence below: I went to summer camp last year.
What is summer?