PARTS OF SPEECHBy: Bianca Ramirez

Noun

Pronoun

adjective

verb

adverb

Conjunction

Preposition

interjection

NOUN Noun- a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun.

The boys went to play cricket

PRONOUN Pronoun- a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).

Hand me that hammer

INTERJECTIONInterjection- an abrupt remark, made esp. as an aside or interruption.

This can mean you are thinking or hesitating

VERBVerb- a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Harold drove all the way to Toronto

ADJECTIVEAdjective- a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

She wore a beautiful dress.

ADVERBAdverb- a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word-group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).

Herman easily lifted the barebell

CONJUNCTION Conjunction- a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g., and, but, if ).

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."

PREPOSITION Preposition- a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for ?”

After several minutes we located the key for the door