Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech Noun Pronoun Verb Adverb Adjective Preposition Conjunction Interjection

Noun A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, or thing.

Noun Person Amanda is holding the pumpkin.

Noun Animal The tiger is orange and black.

Noun Place I want to go to home for Christmas.

Pronoun A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun.

Pronoun Did you see David? He has a white ball. Jennifer is painting a picture. The picture is of her house.

Verb Averbexpresses actions, events or states of being.

Verb The bunny carries the big carrot. Isaiah was the first across the finish line.

Adverb An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".

Adverb The balloons flew away from the girl.

Adverb The boy played the drums loudly.

Adjective Adjectives are descriptive words.

Adjectives The dog is black. The sun is yellow and round.

Preposition A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.

Preposition Please stand in line until your name is called. The dog is beside his doghouse.

Conjunction You can use a conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses.

Conjunction I ate cake and ice cream. I like ice cream but not on cold days.

Interjection An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.

Interjection Ouch, that hurt! Hey! Stop making all that noise.

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