Writer'S Handbook Worksheets And Charts - 8th-9th Grades, Hamburg Central School District Page 9
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24Eight Parts of Speech:
NOUN PRONOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB
PREPOSITION CONJUNCTION INTERJECTION
o A NOUN is the name of a person, place, thing, idea or quality.
(dog,
house, love, loyalty)
o A PRONOUN is a word used to take the place of a noun. (he, she, we,
it, they)
o A VERB is a word used to express action, being, or state of being. (run,
swim, skip, dream)
o An ADJECTIVE is used to modify/describe a noun or a pronoun. (green,
lovely, silly, twelve)
Adjectives answer these questions: What kind? Which one(s)? How many? How
much? Whose?
verb
adjective
o An ADVERB is used to modify/describe a
, an
, or another
adverb
. (slowly, nearby, happily)
Adverbs answer these questions: How? When? Where? Why? Under what
condition? To what extent or degree?
o A PREPOSITION shows the relations between its object and some other
word in the sentence.
on in beside around behind between beyond toward under at
over upon across next near within above down
on top of
to
o A CONJUNCTION connects words or groups of words.
The coordinating conjunctions are AND, BUT, FOR, OR, NOR, SO and YET.
ah
o An INTERJECTION commands attention or expresses strong feeling:
,
gosh
hooray
whew
,
,
, etc.
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