PARTS OF

SPEECH
 NOUNS
✔ PERSON
✔PLACE
✔THING
✔IDEA
 Identify the nouns in these sentences.

✔ My brother lives in San Francisco.

✔ There is a big black dog in my yard.

✔ Please, close the door, Alice.

✔ There is a lot of pollution in

Sacramento.
 PRONOUNS
● A WORD USED IN
PLACE OF A NOUN
Mike visited his parents last
He visits his
month. Mike them
parents
about four times a year.
 ACTION VERBS
● shows something that a person, animal,
force of nature, or thing can do.
Tom mows his lawn.

The wind blows.

 LINKING VERBS
● LINKS SUBJECT TO NOUN OR AN
ADJECTIVE

Chris is a student.

Julio feels hungry.

SOME COMMON LINKING VERBS

be look feel
taste smell sound
seem appear get
become grow stay
keep turn prove
 Identify the verbs in these
sentences.
✔ Tom and his family went to the state fair
last weekend.
✔The children love the new toys.
✔Mary swims everyday.
✔Allen brought the wrong book to class.

✔The soup tastes good.

 ADJECTIVES
● DESCRIBES A NOUN
OR PRONOUN

This is a beautiful sunset.

 ADVERBS
✔ DESCRIBES a
VERB, an
ADJECTIVE, or
another
ADVERB

The sun is shining brightly.

Identify the adjectives or adverbs in
these sentences.
✔The students are doing their work
quietly and carefully.
✔The man was wearing a brown raincoat.

✔She drove the new car very fast.

✔Tony and Alice danced happily.

 PREPOSITIONS
● RELATES a
NOUN or
PRONOUN TO
ANOTHER
WORD IN THE
SENTENCE
The cat is on the chair.
Some common prepositions
about between inside outside
above by into over
across down like through
after during near to
against except off under
at for of up
before from on upon
beside in out with
WORD OR PHRASE USED TO
EXPRESS STRONG EMOTION
OR SURPRISE

YIKES!
 CONJUNCTIONS
✔CONNECTS WORDS OR GROUPS
OF WORDS

The sea and the sky are

beautiful, but the rocks are
dangerous.

Examples: AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET,

EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR,
 Identify the parts of speech
in these sentences.
✔ New students take a test on Tuesdays.
✔ Classroom 7 is next to classroom 6.
✔ Paul and she drove to school quickly.
✔ Hannah plays the piano beautifully.
✔ The neighbors are nice, but they are
noisy.