Parts Of Speech

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Examples: Finesse, education, school, New York, teacher .

Helper Reminder: The ________ .

Question 2

Pronoun

Answer 2

A word used in place of a noun .

Examples: I, her, him, it, that, these, she, he .

Question 3

Adjective

Answer 3

A word that describes or gives information about a noun or pronoun .

Examples: color, odious, incessant, joyful, loud .

Helper Reminder: The _____ truck.

Question 4

Verb

Answer 4

A word that shows action or state of being .

Examples: talk, jump, scream, run, is, am, are .

Helper Reminder: verbs change when in the present, past, or future tense.

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

A verb that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb and tells where, when, how to extend .

Examples: slowly, carefully, incessantly

Helper Reminder: often ends in “y”

Question 6

Preposition

Answer 6

Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word .

Examples: to, over, under, at, between, in .

Helper Reminder: The squirrel ran _____ the tree .

Question 7

Conjunction

Answer 7

A word that connects words, groups, of words and sentence .

Examples: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so .

Question 8

Interjection

Answer 8

A word that expresses sunrise or strong feeling or strong from sentence .

Examples: wow, hey .