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 are this part of speech
What are adjectives?
What is the preposition in the following sentence: Plants were the first living things on earth.
What is on?
What is the noun in the sentence below: My mom took me to Mcdonalds today to get brown ice cream.
What is Mcdonalds?
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?
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?
Describes a verb, adjective, or adverb
What is an adverb?
This is the job of a preposition...
to show place, time, or direction
on, through, between, beside, to, from, down are this part of speech
What are prepositions?
Words that specify place, direction or time.
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 are this part of speech
What are conjunctions?