What Does Part of Speech Mean?
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Each
part of speech explains not what the word is but how the word is used.
The Eight Parts of Speech
1.
Verb
2.
Noun
3.
Pronoun
4.
Adjectives
5.
Adverbs
6.
Prepositions
7.
Conjunctions
8.
interjection
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Each part of speech explains not what the
word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one
sentence and a verb or adjective in the next.
Adverbs
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Adverb
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An
adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another verb, a phrase, or a clause.
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The
seamstress quickly made the mourning
clothes.
Example of Adverbs
Carefully
Faithfully
Sincerely
Let’s Take a Closer Look!
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Verb
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A
verb “is what you do!”
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I
will run, hop,
and skip down the track.
Here come the nouns!
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Noun
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A
noun is a person place or thing.
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Ms. Arruda is going to Vegas this weekend.
Additional Pronouns
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Personal Pronouns
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A
personal pronoun refers to specific
person or thing and changes its form to indicate person, number, gender, and
case.
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Possessive Personal Pronouns
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A
possessive pronoun indicates that the pronoun is acting as a marker of
possession and defines who owns a particular object or person.
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(mine,
yours, hers, his, its, ours theirs)
Additional Pronouns Continued
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Interrogative Pronouns
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An
interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions.
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(who,
whom, which, what and the compounds formed with suffix “ever”).
Still More Pronouns!
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Demonstrative Pronouns
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A
demonstrative pronoun points to and identifies a noun or a pronoun.
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(this,
that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns)
What about the Adjectives?
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Adjectives
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An
adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by describing, identifying, or qualifying
words.
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The
truck-shaped balloon
floated over the treetops.
Conjunctions
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You
can use Conjunctions to link words, phrases, and clauses.
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I
ate the pizza and the pasta!
Prepositions
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Prepositions
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A
preposition links nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence.
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(on,
against, over, during, beneath, beside)
What is an Interjection?
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Interjections
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An
interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.
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(Ouch!,
Hey!)
Parts of Speech Poem (by Kim
Vetter)
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A
noun’s the name of anything,
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As
house or garden, hoop, or swing.
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Instead
of nouns the pronouns stand-
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Her
head, your face, his arm, my hand.
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Adjectives
tell the kind of noun,
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As
great, small, pretty, white, or brown.
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Verbs
tell of something to be done-
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To
read, count, sing, talk, laugh, or run.
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How
things are done the adverbs tell,
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As
slowly, quickly, ill, or well.
Poem Continued
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Conjunctions
join the words together, As men and women, wind or weather.
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The
preposition stands before
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A
noun, as in or through a door.
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The
interjection shows surprise,
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As
Oh! How Pretty; Ah! How wise.
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That’s
why we learn the parts of speech
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Which
reading, writing, speaking teach.
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‘Cause
grammar needs to be correct
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To
help you earn the world’s respect.