8 or 9 parts of speech? ‘Some people class articles as one of the parts of speech, but most people only learn the 8 parts of speech, Definition people, places, ‘things (and animals) dog, cat, garden, work, music, Pees town, Manila, teacher, Bob The sun shines. ‘Anna goes to schoo! replace nouns its, me, my, she, that this, those, us, who, whom, you, TINS John is hungry. He wants to eat show action or being. ‘un, g0, have, invite listen, playing, singing, walk laurhe om Thedog and ct ge ryoning. | describe nouns angry, brave, healthy, litte, ‘ld, red, smart, two, some, 00d, big, interesting aN a aN. Brown dog Fat cat Big garden describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs badly, fully hardly. nearly, never, quickly silently, well, very, realy, almost (GEST UBS funn alte fae very oy | signal that a noun is the, a, an mam ‘The dog. The cat ‘going to follow | | ” show relationship | Prepo GJ) between words in a ee sentence above, before. except, from, Jn, near of, since, between, upon, with, 10, at, ater, on connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences | | Conjunctions exclamations that express strong, feelings and, or, bt, 50, after, before, Unless, either, neither, because, since, shal, gosh’, great’, hey!, hooray!, oh’, eops!, phew’ ht, ouch hi, well Lae tired go Lent to sleep, ees ops! spilled the milk. |NOUNS - Name a person, place, thing or idea. C ‘examples: teacher school desk book language ~— recess PROPER NOUNS - Name a special person, place or thing examples: Ms. Taylor Danie! Hunt Park September Tuesda PRONOUNS - Take the place of a noun. examples: he she it her his. they their, «swe ~~ our She called her mother. ADJECTIVES - Are modifying words that describe a noun, such as size, color and numbe examples: small heavy yellow many new soft The young boy rode his red bike. Tt has been a good day. VERBS - Show action or state of being. examples: see run read swim think watch sing I walk to school. (present) Sam waited in the car. (past) You will enjoy your new school. (future) C ADVERBS - Describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. They specify when, where and how much. examples: loud quiet fast. slow quick ~—high += sup. down. ven She ran home quickly My teacher is very nice PREPOSITIONS - Show how a noun or pronoun is related to another word ina sentence When used with a verb, it changes the meaning of the verb examples: in with from about to above on The boy with curly hair ate lunch in the park. CONJUNCTIONS ~- Join words, phrases and clauses together. examples: and as or so because however Randy and Kim called because it was my birthday. ARTICLES - Three special words that can be used before a noun examples: a an the A bird flew in the tree INTERJECTIONS ~ State an exclamation or remark! Cc (Usually followed with an exclamation mark) examples: Ouch! — Hooray! Oh! Yes! Wow! ‘The Teachers Friend Rocord Book © Teacher's Friend. a Scholaslic Company