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Parts of Speech
Fourth Grade English
Ms. Nicole
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Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
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Nouns
•A noun is a person, place, thing or idea.
• Some examples are…
• My cousin went to college.
• My friend is crazy about popcorn.
• I went to the mall to buy some new shirts.
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The Breakdown of Nouns
• Concrete nouns are nouns that name something that you can
experience with one of your senses such as sight, hearing,
touch, etc. Such as..
• My ice melted in the sun.
• Thunder rattled our windows.
• Proper nouns are nouns that refer to specific things that have
their own names and begin with capital letter. Such as…
• My friend Kelsey is from Ohio.
• In 2014 Christmas falls on a Thursday.
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Verbs
• A verb is a word used to describe and action.
• Some examples are..
• The doctor wrote the prescription.
• Alison bought a ticket.
• She sells necklaces.
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The Breakdown of Verbs
• Irregular verbs are verbs that have a base and then drift from
the normal spelling rules, such as..
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I drink when I am thirsty.
I am drinking chocolate milk.
I have drunk all the tea in the pitcher.
I drank my share of water.
• Action verbs are verbs that specifically describe what the
subject of the sentence is doing. Such as..
• Sam and Eric ride the bus to school each morning.
• Do you think it will rain today?
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Pronouns
• Pronouns are words that can function by itself as
a noun phrase and refers to someone mentioned
earlier.
• Some examples are..
• I owe that person money.
• She and I got into a fight.
• He broke the door on the way out.
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The Breakdown of Pronouns
• Possessive pronouns are pronouns that show ownership.
Such as..
• Take her car to the party.
• That is his locker.
• That is their parking spot.
• A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that is usually used when the object
of the sentence is the same as the subject. Such as..
• _John pinched himself.
• The members argued amongst themselves for a long time.
• We often ask ourselves why we do that.
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Adjective
• An adjective is a word or phrase naming an
attribute, or it is added to a noun to describe it.
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He is as foolish as he is large.
She is as bright as her father.
He arrived a whole lot sooner than we expected.
He is wearing his very finest outfit for his interview.
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Adverbs
• An adverb is a word or phrase that modifies and
adjective or verb or a word that expresses a relation
of place, time, cause, etc.
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I really do not care.
He literally wrecked his car.
I so want to go to the concert.
She completely rejected his proposal.
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Review Question
• What is an example of a noun?
A. Mall
B. As foolish as..
C. Wrote
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