Getting To Know The 8 Parts Of Speech

Getting To Know The 8 Parts Of Speech

Noun

  - A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, idea, or quality.

   Example:   
                     Robert Frost wrote poems.
                     Ann lives in Boston.
                     People like admiration.

  - A noun is used as the subject, as any kind of object, and as the predicate nominative (noun               complement).

   Example:
                     The man walked down the street.
                     (Man is the subject, and street is the object of the preposition down.)

                     The cow is a domestic animal.
                     (Cow is the subject, and animal is the predicate nominative.)


   Nouns answer these questions: Who? What?
 
 

Pronoun

   - A pronoun is a word used to take the place of a noun. A pronoun is used as a noun.

     Through use of pronouns, one may avoid repeating name words.

   Example:

                     Mrs. Jones has lost her book.

                     The box has lost its handle. 

                     Cameron saw the boys and talked to them.

                  

Adjective

   - An adjective is used to modify a noun or a pronoun. An adjective may be a single word, a

     phrase, or a clause.

   Example:

                     We saw beautiful valleys and rugged mountains. 

                     Braden is taller than Adam.

                     Joss is shorter than Ellie.

Verb

   - A verb is a word used to express action, being, or state of being.

   Example:

                     Nate painted a picture. 

                     Olivia is a librarian.

                     Cole reads comic books.

  

Adverb

   - An adverb is used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

   Example:

                     Elodie sings beautifully. (beautifully modifies the verb signs.)

                     Clark is a really great orator. (really modifies the adjective great.)

                     She smiled rather sadly. (rather modifies the adverb sadly).

Preposition

   - A preposition shows the relations between its object and some other word in the sentence.

   Example:
                     We walked through the woods.
                     They ran across the street.
                     The dog is sleeping on the couch.

Conjunction

   - A conjunction connects words or groups of words.

   Example:

                     Bob and Linda are here. (and connects the two subjects, Bob and Linda.)

                     She came, but she did not stay. (but connects the two independent clauses, she

                     came and she did not stay.)

Interjection 

   - An interjection is a familiar word that has no grammatical relation to the rest of the

   sentence and that commands attention or expresses strong feeling: ah, gosh, hurrah, oh,

   ouch, shh, whew, etc.

   Example:

                     Hurray! We won!

                     Ouch! 

                     Shh! You'll wake up the baby.