PARTS OF SPEECH

Parts of a Description Examples

sentence
Adjective Describes nouns
Adverb Words that tell more about or modify a
verb, adjective, or another adverb
(describing manner, time, place,
frequency and duration)
Article a, an - indefinite articles
the - definite articles
Conjunction Joins words or sentences together
Interjection A short word showing emotion or feeling
Big, smile, blue, round, kind,
passionate
Quickly, early, happily, soon,
here, there, hard, softly,
extremely, rather, very, too
And, but, so, for, nor, before,
after, until while, as soon as, as
Huh, Wow

Noun Names of things, animals, people, place Ball, table, dog, boy, school, cat

Preposition Relates one thing to another To, at, under, through, above, in

Pronoun used instead of a noun to avoid repetition He, she, it, they

Verb Action or doing word Play, say, eat, run, read, watch