Parts of Speech

Everything you need to know

ADJECTIVES

Modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying or quantifying words.

Usually proceeds the noun or pronoun it modifies EXAMPLES:

– The small boat foundered on the wine dark sea.

– The back room was filled with large, yellow rain boots.

* Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite

NOUNS

a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea

– EXAMPLES:– Late last year our neighbors bought a goat. – Portia White was an opera singer.

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PRONOUNS

Can replace a noun or another pronoun Personal, subjective, objective, possessive, demonstrative,

interrogative, relative, indefinite White, House, Mr. Miller, Michael Jordan, Mickey Mouse

ADVERB

can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause

indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers

questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much” Usually ends in an -ly EXAMPLES:

– The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes. – We urged him to dial the number more expeditiously

VERBS

Most important part of a sentence Asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express

actions, events, or states of being Action verb v. linking verb Jumping, playing, skipping, chewing EXAMPLES:

– Dracula bites his victims on the neck.

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