1. The 8 parts of speech

2. Nouns A noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing. A noun that names only one person, place, or thing is called a singular noun. A noun that names more than one person, a place, or a thing is called a plural noun.

3. Person dentists (plural) sister (singular) Julio (singular) children (plural)

4. Place New York (singular) zoo (singular) towns (plural) beaches (plural)

5. Thing pears (plural) fan (singular) notebook (singular) buses (plural)

6. adjective  An adjective is a word that describes a noun. An adjective can tell what kind or how many.  What Kind  We have a large dog.  Our dog has tiny, brown spots.

7. adjectives How Many Our dog has five puppies. Many dogs love children.

8. Verbs  A verb is a word that can show action. When a verb tells what people or things do it is called an action verb. runjumpswim hittingthrowdanced wroteyellsing

9. adverbs An adverb is a word that describes a verb. An adverb can tell how, when, or where. How I read books quickly. I read newspapers slowly. When I read books often. I always read the newspaper. Where I keep my books upstairs. I buy my newspaper there.

10. conjunctions FANBOYS For And Nor But Or Yet So

11. Prepositions Show location, time, and movement Aboveafter against alongbehindbelow betweenduringoff ontoout oftoward throughuponby insideintoby

12. interjection "Interjection" is a big name for a little word. Interjections are short exclamations like Oh!, Um or Ah! They have no real grammatical value but we use them quite often, usually more in speaking than in writing. When interjections are inserted into a sentence, they have no grammatical connection to the sentence. An interjection is sometimes followed by an exclamation mark (!) when written.

13. Common Interjections "Hello! How are you today?" "Hmm. I'm not so sure." "Oh! I've got a toothache." "Ouch! That hurts!" "Well, what did he say?" "Dear me! That's a surprise!"

14. pronouns Pronouns are words used to replace nouns.