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The 8 Parts of Speech

2. An interjection is a word or phrase used to express emotion.
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Interjections
An interjection is a word or phrase used to express emotion.
Ouch!
Wow!
Whoa!
Oh no!
Awesome!

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Verbs
A verb is a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being.
There are 3 types of Verbs:
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping Verbs

4. An action verb tells what the subject does.
Action Verbs
An action verb tells what the subject does.
Physical Action: run, jump, swim
Mental Action: wish, hope, dream

5. Linking Verbs
A linking verb links its subject to a word in the predicate. FORMS OF BE: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, have, has, had

6. could, should, would, may, might, must, can, shall, will
Helping Verbs
A helping verb helps main verbs express action or precise shades of meaning.
Examples: has, have, had
could, should, would, may, might, must, can, shall, will

7. An adjective is a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun.
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Adjectives
An adjective is a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun.
Little
Adjectives answer 3 questions:
What Kind?
Which one or ones?
How many / how much?
Noisy
Spicy

8. A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
Common Noun:
The general name for a person, place, thing, or idea
Proper Noun:
The name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
Proper nouns are ALWAYS Capitalized.
cat
Morris

9. Conjunctions For And Nor But Or Yet So
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Conjunctions
A conjunction is a word used to join words or groups of words; connectors:
For
And
Nor
But Or
Yet So
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Adverbs
An adverb is a word that modifies, or describes, a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Adverbs answer 4 questions:
How? suddenly, carefully, sadly
When? now, later, soon
Where? there, up, ahead
To What Extent? completely, totally, fully

11. A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.
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Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.
EXAMPLES: I, you, he, she, it, me, we, they, him, his, hers, my, mine, your, yours, its, us, our, ours, their, theirs

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Prepositions
A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between a noun or a pronoun to other words in the sentence.
Examples: about, above, across, against, among, around, behind, beside, below, between, during, except, by, down, over, under, of, off, on, through, beneath, to, after, toward, up, onto, unto, into, in

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Articles
Articles are words that are linked to nouns to identify them rather than describe them.
examples: a, an, the

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