Transcript PARTS OF SPEECH

PARTS OF
SPEECH
The building blocks to writing
NOUNS
PERSON
PLACE
THING
IDEA
PRONOUNS
A WORD USED IN
PLACE OF A NOUN
I, YOU,SHE, HE, IT
WE, YOU, THEY
ACTION VERBS
 SHOWS ACTION
 LINKS SUBJECT TO
ANOTHER WORD IN THE
SENTENCE
Examples: walks, talks, runs, plays
LINKING VERBS
 LINKS SUBJECT TO NOUN OR AN
ADJECTIVE IN THE PREDICATE PART OF
THE SENTENCE
 IS, ARE, WAS ,WERE,AM, BEEN
Examples:
1. The boy was walking to the store.
2. The apple pie is cooking in
the oven.
3. The football player was drinking
water.
ADJECTIVES
DESCRIBES A NOUN
OR PRONOUN
BEAUTIFUL sunset
ADVERBS
DESCRIBES
VERB,
ADJECTIVE,
ANOTHER
ADVERB
SHINING BRIGHTLY
PREPOSITIONS
RELATES A
NOUN OR
PRONOUN
TO ANOTHER
WORD IN
THE
SENTENCE
IN FRONT OF the cow
WORD OR PHRASE USED TO
EXPRESS STRONG EMOTION
OR SURPRISE
YIKES!
CONJUNCTIONS
WATER
AND
ROCKS
 CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL
GROUPS OF WORDS
 AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET
 EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR,
Articles
 An article is a kind of adjective which is always
used with and gives some information about a
noun. It is like an adjective. It modifies a noun.
Here are some examples: A, An, The
A book fell on the floor.
An article is used before a noun.
The test was easy.