1. Mrs. Burhenn
The Parts of Speech

2. Noun
Function: person, place, thing, or idea Example words: pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John Example sentence: This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in Tulsa.

3. Verb
Function: action or state Example words: (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must Example sentence: Facebook is a web site. I like Facebook.

4. Adjective
Function: describes a noun Example words: a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting Example sentence: I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.

5. Adverb
Function: describes a verb, adjective or adverb Example words: quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really Example sentence: My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.

6. Pronoun
Function: replaces a noun Example words: I, you, he, she, some Example sentence: Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.

7. Preposition
Function: links a noun to another word Example words: to, at, after, on, but Example sentence: We went to school on Monday.

8. Conjunctions
Function: joins clauses or sentences or words Example words: and, but, when Example sentence: I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.

9. Coordinating Conjunctions
These are known as the FANBOYS
F-For
A-And
N-Nor
B-But
O-Or
Y-Yet
S-So

10. Subordinating Conjunctions
These will introduce a dependent clause.
Since If
Although
Because
Even though
When
Whenever
While
Etc

11. Interjections
Function: short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence Example words: oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Example sentence: Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.