1. Parts of Speech The 8

2. Nouns A person, place, thing, or idea Examples: desk Lindblom puppy democracy

3. Pronouns A word that takes the place of a noun Examples: she them ours it

4. Verbs An action or state of being Examples: jog been write kill

5. Adjectives Modify nouns Examples: Crafty (The crafty dog escaped again!) content excellent ambitious

6. Adverbs Modify adjectives, verbs, and other adverbs Examples: feebly fearlessly soon rapidly

7. Conjunctions A word that connects other words, clauses, phrases, or sentences. Examples: FANBOYS: For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so Other conjunction examples: because, moreover, therefore, however

8. Prepositions Used before a noun or pronoun to express a relation to another word or phrase in the sentence. Examples: under around within after The blanket was on the couch.

9. Interjections An exclamatory expression of emotion. Examples: Geez! Ughhh! Hooray! Wow!

10. Activity Look at the following words. With a partner, create a sentence with the words. Label the parts of speech for each word in your sentence.

11. Miley Cyrus. Wow. Above. His. Cat. So.

12. Under. And. Sat. Happily. Beyonce. She

13. Before. Holy cow. Hello Kitty. Shiny. Sneezed.

14. On. But. Justin Timberlake. He. Zoo. Lazily.