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WritingWriting

How many parts of speech did you study

last year?

What are the 8 parts of speech?

• Nouns• Pronouns• Adjectives• Prepositions

• Verbs• Adverbs• Conjunctions• Interjections

NOUNS

•People•Places•Things•Ideas

PRONOUNS

• A word used in place of one or more nouns or pronouns.

Ask Dan if Dan has done Dan’s homework.Ask Dan if he has done his homework.

ADJECTIVES

An adjective is a word that describes, or modifies, a noun or a pronoun.

Adjectives tellWhat kind?

Which one?

How many?

How much?

VERBS

• A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state of being. Verbs are what you do!

ADVERBS

• An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

An adverb answers the following

questions:Where? How

often?To what extent?

When? How? How much?

How long?

Prepositions

• A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. Do you remember learning the prepositions last year????

Conjunctions

• A conjunctions joins words or groups of words. The hook up words, phrases, or clauses that go together in the sentence.

Interjections

• These words show strong feelings.

Class Project

• Complete the worksheet that you are given describing yourself and things that are important to you. Make sure you hang on to it!

ANY QUESTIONS?