1. Parts of Speech
English Language Arts

2. Grammar Flip Book: The 8* Parts of Speech
Take out four pieces of paper. Let’s make a flip book.
1 Noun
2 Verb
3 Adjective
4 Adverb
5 Pronoun
6 Interjection
7 Conjunction
8 Preposition
*9 Article (back side)

3. Noun (red)
A word used to name a person, place, thing, animal, or idea.
Examples:
William, girl, New York, library, ball, Stanley Cup, dog, love
kick the ball

4. Verb (orange) A word that expresses an action or a state of being.
Examples:
Action verbs:
run, kick, go, think, play, read, stumble, touch
Helping verbs:
be, am, is, are, was, were, been, do, does, did, have, has, had, can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, ought, ought to
kick the ball have the ball

5. Adjective (yellow) A word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Examples:
shiny, dangerous, new, bouncy, green, noisy, colorful, wooden
colorful ball

6. Adverb (green)
A word that describes and adds information to a verb or a verb phrase. (-ly)
Examples:
quickly, soon, very, rather, too, almost, only, quietly
quickly kick the ball

7. Pronoun (blue) A word that takes the place of a noun. Examples:
he, she, them, him, we, you, us, mine, yours, theirs
kick the ball to him

8. Interjection (purple)
A word that usually occurs alone and expresses emotion.
Examples:
oh, hello, ah, ouch, phew, yuck, hooray, help, er, um, oops
Ouch!

9. Conjunction (brown) A word used to link words and clauses. Examples:
and, but, nor, for, or, so, yet, neither, because
bat and ball

10. Preposition (pink)
A word that indicates the relationship between two people or things, usually in terms of where they are.
Hint: Think of a box. (In the box, Around the box, Through the box)
Examples:
with, under, on, behind, into, over, across
kick the ball behind you

11. *Article (gray)
A word used with a noun to refer to a specific person (or someone in general) or thing (or something in general).
Examples:
a, an, the
the ball

12. Parts of speech…putting it all together
Here’s an example of a sentence that uses all of the 8* parts of speech.
The boy quickly kicked his bouncy ball past a defender, but in his haste he stumbled. Oops!