Parts of Speech

Interjection: Short exclamation, usually at the beginning of a sentence: Hey! Wow!, Doh!

Article: A, An, The

Noun: person, place, thing, or idea Love, Car, Paris, Dog, Bob, Pickle, Animosity

Pronoun: Word that takes the place of a noun He, She, It, They, Them, We, Ourselves

Run, Jump, Sit, Think, Try, Bark, Laugh, Refuse Verb: “action words”: what a noun does Run, Jump, Sit, Think, Try, Bark, Laugh, Refuse

Adjective: Big, Small, Funny, Smart, Fast, Ugly, Serious, “Describing word”. Adjectives only describe nouns (people, places, things, ideas….) Big, Small, Funny, Smart, Fast, Ugly, Serious, Quirky, Stupendous

Adverb: “Describing word” that describes verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or whole sentences/phrases Verb: ran quickly Adjective: very pretty Adverb: more angrily Sentence: Unfortunately, we can’t…

Up, Over, Until, Through, On, After, Against, Preposition: short word, usually at the beginning of a phrase, that describes “where” or “when” Up, Over, Until, Through, On, After, Against, Around

Conjunction: “joining word”. Conjunctions join words in a list and phrases/clauses in a sentence: Because, And, But, Since, Yet, Or, So