Parts of Speech

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A person, place, thing or idea

Examples: finesse, education, school, New York, teacher

Helpful Reminder: The ball. “Ball” is the noun.

Question 2

Pronoun

Answer 2

A word used in place of a noun

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

Helpful Reminder: These shoes are old. “These” is the Pronoun.

Question 3

Adjective

Answer 3

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

Examples: colorful, edious, incessant, joyful, loud

Helpful Reminder: The loud truck. “Truck” is the adjective.

Question 4

Verb

Answer 4

A word that shows action or state of being

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

Helpful Reminder: Verbs change when in the present, past or future.

He is running. “Running” is the verb.

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

A word that describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb and tells where, when, how, or to what extent

Examples: slowly, carefully, incessantly

Helpful Reminder: often ends in “ly”

She slowly walked to class. “Slowly” is the adverb.

Question 6

Preposition

Answer 6

Shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word

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

Helpful Reminder: The squirrel ran over the tree. “Over” is the preposition.

Question 7

Conjunction

Answer 7

A word that connects words, groups of words and sentences

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

Helpful Reminder:They got in a fight but, didn’t get detention. “But” is the conjunction.

Question 8

Interjection

Answer 8

A word that expresses surprise or strong feeling. Separate from the sentence.

Examples: Wow! Hey!

Helpful Reminder: She hit a homerun. Wow! “Wow!” is the interjection.