Parts Of Speech Flashcards
Noun
Answer: Person, Place or thing
Eg. table, Sally, Melbourne
Concrete noun
Answer: A noun that you can Smell, Hear, Taste, touch, see
Eg. Garden, light, tiger
Common noun
Answer: General person, place or thing
Eg. Table, Bottle and Chair
Proper noun
Answer: A specific person, place or thing
Eg. Scarlett, Melbourne
Collective noun
Answer: Names of groups
Eg. Pride of lions
Abstract noun
Answer: A noun that you cannot see, hear, taste, smell, touch
Eg. Hurt, happy,sad
Singular noun
Answer: a noun that names one person, place or thing
Eg. Table, pillow
Plural noun
Answer: names more than one person place or thing
Eg. Bananas, horses children
Pronoun
Answer: a word used in place or things
Eg. He, Who, you
Verbs
Answer: describe actions and doing words
Eg. Jumping, running
Auxiliary verbs
Answer: are helper verbs
Eg. Has been, will
Present tense verbs
Answer: tell us what is happening now
Eg. I am
Past tense verbs
Definition- something that happened in the past
Eg. Swam, rode
Future tense verbs
Definition- Something that happens in the future
Eg. Will, going to
Adjectives
Definition- Describing words
Eg. Enormous, beautiful
Adverbs
Definition- Words that usually modify a verb
Eg. Quietly, louder
Hint- usually ends in ‘ly’
Conjunctions
Definition- are joining words
Eg. And, because
Prepositions
Definition- link a noun or pronoun
Eg. Under, during
Interjections
Definition- words that show strong emotion, greetings, agreement/ disagreement
Eg. Hello, wow
