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Parts of Speech: The 8 "Building Blocks" of The English Language

The document defines the 8 parts of speech in English: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Nouns are names of people, places, things, or ideas. Verbs express actions or states of being. Pronouns take the place of nouns. Adjectives provide descriptive details about nouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Prepositions show relationships between nouns or pronouns. Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses. Interjections express emotions or reactions.

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Parts of Speech: The 8 "Building Blocks" of The English Language

The document defines the 8 parts of speech in English: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Nouns are names of people, places, things, or ideas. Verbs express actions or states of being. Pronouns take the place of nouns. Adjectives provide descriptive details about nouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Prepositions show relationships between nouns or pronouns. Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses. Interjections express emotions or reactions.

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PARTS OF SPEECH

The 8 building blocks of the English language

NOUN
Person, place, thing or
idea: what or who Nouns are concrete like dogs and cars. Or abstract like anger, liberty and friendship. Common like desks, puppies and mother. Or proper like Juanita, McAllen, HEB or Texas.

VERB
A verb tells what the
noun does or is An action verb tells you that She dances. A linking or state of being verb tells you that The monster is ugly.

PRONOUN
A pronoun is a short word that
takes the place of a noun. Pronouns can be: Subjects : he or she Objects: him or her Possessive: his or hers Indefinite: nobody or all Demonstrative: this or those

Important: Always be sure the pronoun has a clear referent! (If you use they, be sure the reader knows who they are.)

ADJECTIVE
Adjectives are
descriptive words used to modify or tell more about nouns and pronouns Without colorful and precise adjectives, language would be pretty blah!

Presenting a blue car, a red car and a light brown car

ADVERB
An adverb is a descriptive word
that tells more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Adverbs tell how, where and when: Yesterday, she ran quickly downtown. The most commonly used adverb in English is very. Many adverbs end in ly: quickly, carefully, & slowly

PREPOSITION
A preposition shows a position
relationship between two or more nouns or pronouns. She walked through the door into the room. The relationship can be spatial, as in the sentence above, or in time, as in the sentence below: After the track meet, he was very tired.

CONJUNCTION
A conjunction is a short joining
word, such as and, or, but, for, so & yet. The main function of a conjunction is to join words, phrases and clauses together: Slowly and carefully A red hat and a white shirt He had no ticket, but he went anyway.

INTERJECTION
An interjection is a word
(or words) of shock or surprise. It is usually used by itself and is followed by an exclamation point. Examples are: Wow!, Cool!, Awesome! and so on

Watch out! Whered this rocket come from???

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