parts of speech

Question 1

what is a noun

Answer 1

person, place, thing or idea

Question 2

what is a common noun

Answer 2

person, place, thing or idea

Question 3

what is a proper noun

Answer 3

a specified person, place, thing or idea and it is capitalized

Question 4

what is a pronoun

Answer 4

it replaces a noun so like you can replace THE BOY with HE

Question 5

what is a adjective

Answer 5

a describing word
example: BLUE sky
CRANKY baby
MEAN dog

Question 6

what is a verb

Answer 6

shows a action or expresses a state of being
example: the rain FELL from the sky

Question 7

what is a adverb

Answer 7

it modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb to make it more clear
example: carefully or quickly

Question 8

what is a preposition

Answer 8

it is a word that relates its object to some other word in the sentence
example: Martha MOVED TO WASHINGTON

Question 9

what is a conjunction

Answer 9

is a word that connects words or groups of words
example: the journey was hard AND dangerous

Question 10

what is a interjection

Answer 10

a single word or short group of words that is used to express a feeling or emotion
example: WOW i got straight A’s on my report card