1. Parts of Speech
The Basics

2. The Nine Parts of Speech
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Articles
Prepositions
Interjections
Every word in a sentence has a particular function.

3. NOUN | person, place, thing, or idea
Mr. Garcia likes to eat spinach.
San Diego is an old town.
To cook, you need a pot.
Honesty is an important value to have.

4. Verb | shows action or state of being
Action: He was running through the forest.
State of being: Steven was sad to hear that he failed the Algebra test.

5. Pronoun | replaces a noun
John Henry was studying for the mid-term exam when he realized that it was three o’clock in the morning.
Note: there are many types of pronouns:
Personal
Interrogative
Subject
Object
Indefinite
Relative
Possessive
Reflexive
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6. Adjective | describes a noun
The happy woman sings every morning.
The rainy day made us even sadder.

7. Adverb | describes a verb or another adverb
The math student walked happily to the Algebra class.
The man hungrily ate the hot stew.

8. Conjunctions | join words, phrases, or sentences
Brahndo and Janet love to cook.
You will go to school, or you will fail.
I am happy because I just received my final grade.
It has been cloudy since the morning.

9. Article | points out a noun
The bicycle was red and shiny.
A yellow moon appears in October.
An excellent student studies to pass her exams.
Note: there are two types of articles:
definite (the) [specific]
indefinite (a, an) [not specific]

10. Preposition | word or phrases that comes before a noun to show the noun's relationship to another word in the sentence.
The cat was on the table.
The dog was under the chair.
Common prepositions:
for on to up at
under
above
toward
with
between in
behind
from
upon
into
off

11. Interjection | expressive word
Wow, you knocked that ball out of the park!
Oh, you really need to take care of yourself.
Huh, what did you say?
Ah, now I understand the problem!

12. Practice
Identify the part of speech for each word in the following sentence.
The happy student was walking slowly on the cool lawn, and he was reading an Algebra book about polynomials and quadratic equations, which he enjoyed.

13. quadratic equations, which he enjoyed.
Practice
The happy student was walking slowly on
article adj noun verb verb adv prep
the cool lawn, and he was reading an
article adj noun conj pron verb verb article
Algebra book about polynomials and
adj noun prep noun conj
quadratic equations, which he enjoyed.
adj noun prep pron verb

14. Let’s try some!
Parts of Speech