parts of speech - archibald 6/7g...a word that is used in place of one or more nouns. it may stand...

Parts of Speech

Eight Parts of Speech

Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs

Prepositions Conjunctions Interjections FLOCABULARY

Nouns The subject

Words that name:A personA PlaceA ThingAn Idea

NOUN VIDEO Flocabulary

Pronouns

A word that is used in place of one or more nouns. It may stand FOR a person, place or thing:

Mrs. Shields likes candy (NOUN) I like candy (Pronoun) The class was crazy.They were crazy. PRONOUN VIDEO

Adjectives

Words that describe nouns and pronouns.

The red, shiny ball was my favourite. Is that a wool sweater?Just give me five minutes first.ADJECTIVE VIDEO

Flocabulary

Verbs

Words that express actions or states of being.Every sentence must have one!I am happy.I jumped up and down.VERB VIDEO

Flocabulary

Adverbs

Modify or describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.

She ran quickly. She left yesterday. We got there in a hurry. It was insanely hot sauce. Answer the questions: HOW, WHEN, WHY

and HOW MUCH? ADVERB VIDEO

Flocabulary

Conjunctions

Connect words or phrases.andorbutuntilas

becausehowever

for If

CONJUCTION VIDEO

Flocabulary

Prepositions

Show us the relationship of one word in a sentence to another. Can tell us four things: Location, direction, time, relationship.

They received a postcard from Bobby telling about his trip to Hawaii.

I will come with you. She sat in front of the boy with the curly dark hair and threw

paper airplanes above him. A sea horse is born in the father’s pouch. She walked across the room quietly. PREPOSITION VIDEO Flocabulary

Interjections

Words that express strong feelings. Often followed by an exclamation mark or a comma.

WOAH! Hooray! Ouch! WOW! Yes! INTERJECTIONS VIDEO

Putting it all together!

Noun: DOG Adjective: BIG dog Verb: Big dog BARK Adverb: Big dog bark LOUDLY Pronoun: Look at the big dogs. THEY bark loudly. Preposition: Look at the big dogs. They bark loudly

AROUND the neighbourhood. Conjunction: Look at the big AND little dogs. They bark

loudly around the neighbourhood. Interjection: Look at the big and little dogs. WOW! They

bark loudly around the neighbourhood.

And that’s all...

...for now!