PARTS OF SPEECH

In the English language . . .

Parts of speech . . .

Nouns

Pronouns

Adjectives

Verbs

Adverbs

Prepositions

Determiner (Articles)

Conjunctions

Interjections

It is important to

understand that every word

in a sentence has a job to

do, a role in the sentence.

NOUNS

PERSON

PLACE

THING

IDEA

PRONOUNS

A WORD USED IN PLACE

OF A NOUN or NOUN

PHRASE.

I, YOU,SHE, HE, IT

WE, YOU, THEY

ACTION VERBS

SHOWS ACTION

LINKS SUBJECT TO

ANOTHER WORD IN THE

SENTENCE

LINKING VERBS LINKS SUBJECT TO NOUN OR AN

ADJECTIVE IN THE PREDICATE PART

OF THE SENTENCE

IS, ARE, WAS ,WERE, AM, BEEN

SMELL, LOOK, TASTE, REMAIN, FEEL,

APPEAR, SOUND, SEEM, BECOME,

GROW, STAND, TURN

ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBES A NOUN

OR PRONOUN

BEAUTIFUL sunset

ADVERBS

DESCRIBES

VERB,

ADJECTIVE,

ANOTHER

ADVERB,

whole sentence.

SHINING BRIGHTLY

PREPOSITIONS

Used to show

the way in

which other

words are

connected.

IN FRONT OF the cow

DETERMINER Definite article

Indefinite article

Possessives

Demonstrative

Quantifiers

CONJUNCTIONS

CONNECTS WORDS OR INDIVIDUAL

GROUPS OF WORDS

AND, BUT, OR, NOR,FOR, SO, YET

EITHER, OR, NEITHER, NOR,

WATER AND ROCKS

WORD OR PHRASE USED TO

EXPRESS STRONG EMOTION

OR SURPRISE

YIKES!

She picked up her XXX.

She picked up her XXX book.

She XXX picked up her book.

She picked up her book XXX.

She picked up her XXX heavy book.

What’s the importance of

knowing the parts of

speech of words?

Identify each word in the

following sentence

The beautiful queen was walking

slowly on the cool lawn, and she

was reading a long book about

knights and kings which she

enjoyed.

SUFFIXES

NOUNS

-tion

-sion

-ence

-ance

-er, -or, -ist

-ment

-ness

ADJECTIVES

-less

-full

-ent

-ant

-al

-ible

-able

ADVERBS

-ly

-ily

-fully