1. Take notes on your handout
Parts of Speech Review
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2. Nouns Nouns : Persons, places, things or ideas.
Example: girls, school building, blanket, and thoughts
Proper nouns: Must be capitalized, naming very specific persons, places, things or ideas.
Example: Maya Angelou, Boston, Verizon, etc.

3. Adjectives Adjectives: Describe nouns.
They also answer one of 3 questions: How many? Which one? What kind?
Example: colorful skateboard, fascinating teacher, creative presentation

4. VERBS Verbs: Describe actions. There are 3 different kinds
Action Verbs: running, pass, catch
Linking verbs connect ideas: any form of “to be” (am, is, are)
Adverbs: Describe verbs, adverbs or adjectives. For example: She ran quickly. He is extremely intelligent.

5. Pronouns and Prepositions
Pronouns: Replace nouns
Example: him, her, it, etc.
Prepositions: shows relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence
Example: over, under, through, around, beside

6. Conjunctions and Interjections
Conjunctions: join words or groups of words
Example: and, or, for, nor, but
Interjections: exclamatory word that shows emotion
Example: Ouch! Hey!