Parts of Speech

• Parts of Speech are the building blocks of language

Nouns

• A noun is a person, place, or thing
• Example: Joan is going to Vegas this weekend.

Verbs

• A verb describes an action or state of being
• A verb "is what you do!"
• Example: I will run, hop, and skip down the track.

Adjectives

• An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun
• It describes, identifies, or qualifies words
• Example: The truck-shaped balloon floated over the treetops.

Adverbs

• An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause
• Example: The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes.

Pronouns

• A pronoun replaces a noun or another pronoun
• Example: Which show do you want to see?

Additional Pronouns

• Personal pronouns: They refer to a specific person or thing
  • Changes form to indicate person, number, gender, and case
• Possessive personal pronouns: Indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of possession and defines who owns a particular object or person
  • Examples: mine, yours, hers, his, its, ours, theirs

Interrogative Pronouns

• Interrogative pronouns are used to ask questions
• These include who, whom, which, what, and compounds formed with "ever"

Demonstrative Pronouns

• A demonstrative pronoun points to and identifies a noun or a pronoun
• This, that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns

Conjunctions

• Conjunctions link words, phrases, and clauses
• Example: I ate the pizza and the pasta

Prepositions

• A preposition links nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence
• Examples: on, against, over, during, beneath, beside

Interjections

• An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion
• Examples: Ouch!, Hey!