1. The Building Blocks of Good Writing
Parts of Speech
The Building Blocks of Good Writing

2. How many parts of speech did you study last year?

3. What are the 8 parts of speech?
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Prepositions
Verbs
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Interjections

4. NOUNS
People
Places
Things
Ideas

5. PRONOUNS A word used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.
Ask Dan if Dan has done Dan’s homework.
Ask Dan if he has done his homework.

6. ADJECTIVES
An adjective is a word that describes, or modifies, a noun or a pronoun.
Adjectives tell
What kind?
Which one?
How many?
How much?

7. VERBS
A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state of being. Verbs are what you do!

8. An adverb answers the following questions:
ADVERBS
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
An adverb answers the following questions:
Where?
How often?
To what extent?
When?
How?
How much?
How long?

9. Prepositions
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. Do you remember learning the prepositions last year????

10. Conjunctions
A conjunctions joins words or groups of words. The hook up words, phrases, or clauses that go together in the sentence.

11. Interjections ouch! NO! YEAH! OOPS! Awesome! wow!
These words show strong feelings.
ouch!
NO!
YEAH!
OOPS!
Awesome!
wow!

12. Class Project
Complete the worksheet that you are given describing yourself and things that are important to you. Make sure you hang on to it!

13. ANY QUESTIONS?