Transcript Parts of Speech - Gordon State College

Parts of Speech
Summary
There are 8 parts of speech:
nouns
pronouns
adjectives
verbs
adverbs
prepositions
conjunctions
interjections
Except for interjections, the parts of speech work together,
& you usually have to see how a word is working with other
words to be sure what part of speech it is.
Remember that a word can be one part of speech in a
certain context & another part of speech in a different
context:
I run every day.
I went for a run.
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verb
noun
I’m tired, so I’ll rest.
I am so tired.
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conjunction
adverb
She’s a good student.
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adjective
They did it for the good of the team. --noun
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Noun: person, place, thing, idea
Pronoun: takes the place of a noun
Adjective: describes a noun or pronoun
Verb: shows an action or a state of being
Adverb: describes a verb, adjective, or other
adverb
• Preposition: shows the relationship between a
noun & another word in the sentence
• Conjunction: links two items
• Interjection: a word/phrase to show emotion, set
apart from the sentence, grammatically unrelated
to the rest of the sentence.
Exercise page
These exercises require you to distinguish between different parts of speech.
• http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-parts-ofspeech.php
• http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0073123587/student_view0/chapter6/parts_of_speech_exercise.html
• http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/rvpartsp.html
• http://www.really-learn-english.com/english-parts-of-speech-exercise-02.html
• http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz30fna.htm
• http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisepos1.htm
• http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisepos2.htm
• http://www.towson.edu/ows/exercisepos3.htm
• http://www.gordonstate.edu/faculty/k_guffey/English%20grammar/assignments/
verbs.prepositions.conjunctions.interjections.htm