Parts of Speech
What is a pronoun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: A pronoun replaces a noun or another pronouns.
Examples: she, him, myself, ourselves, themselves
"Run" is what part of speech in this sentence?
I went on a long run.
noun
A word used to describe an action:
a verb
A word used to describe or modify a noun:
an adjective
"Teacher" is what part of speech?
noun
What is a common noun? Give 3 examples.
Definition: words for types of things, people, places, such as "dog" that are not in capital letters.
Examples: kitten, chair, education
"He is talking to me right now."
What part of speech is the word, "is?"
A helping verb which "helps" the word 'talking'.
A name of a particular person or place. Give 2 examples.
Proper Noun Definition: A name of a particular person or place.
Mr. Smith, London, Friday
What is used to identify people, places, animals, things, or ideas?
Examples: teacher, school, book, honesty, dog
Nouns
What part of speech is the word "purple"?
adjective
Identify the proper nouns in the following sentence:
Mr. Smith lives in Tel Aviv, Israel with his family.
Mr. Smith, Tel Aviv, Israel
What part of speech expresses sudden emotions or reactions?
Wow! Oh! Ouch! Great!
Interjections
Them, yourself, mine, her, they, their, them are all examples of what part of speech?
pronouns
What is the acronym we use for conjunctions?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
FANBOYS
True or false: In order for a sentence to be complete, it has to have a noun and a verb.
true
"She speaks slowly".
True or false, slowly is an adverb ?
Identify the adjective in the sentence:
They live in the beautiful house down the street.
beautiful
What part of speech is used to describe a verb, adjective or adverb?
adverbs
What part of speech shows the relationship between words?
in, on, from, under ...
prepositions
Which part of speech replaces nouns to help with repetition?
pronouns
She sang beautifully at the concert.
Which word is the adverb?
beautifully
The, a, and an are all examples of...
Which one is the definite article and why?
articles
"The" because it is talking about a particular thing.
Which part of speech do you use when you need to join clauses, sentences, or words?
For example: I wanted to go for a walk, but it started to rain.
conjunctions
Identify the adverb and what it describes in the following sentences:
- The athlete ran swiftly across the finish line
- The musician played the piano exceptionally well
- The fresh coffee was incredibly hot.
- verb
- adverb
- adjective
WOW!That is amazing.
what part of speech is "wow"?
interjection