Parts of speech

Chris carter

Noun

Ricky was very nice.

Person, place, or thing.

pronoun

We moved down the street.

A word that replaces a noun or other pronoun and uses as the subject of the sentence.

Verb

Scarlet sprinted to school because she missed the bus.

A word that can express actions.

adjective

The blue sky and ocean is mine.

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun; it answers the questions which one? What kind? How many?

adverb

I got soaked in the rain yesterday.

A word that modifies a verb. Answers the questions where? When? How?

preposition

There is a past, future, and present.

Connects nouns, pronouns, and other phrases to other words in the sentence; a prepositional phrase is made up of a preposition and an object and can have an article or adjective.

Conjunction

We went to the movies and the carnival.

Connects words, phrases, and sentences in a sentence. There are two types; coordinating and subordinating.

interjection

Wow. That is an awesome plane.

An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion.