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HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE PARTS OF SPEECH?
SURE YOU USE IT EVERYDAY, BUT DO YOU REALLY KNOW THEM?
Jane says that she knows her nouns come in all shapes and sizes, and their adjectives prove it to be true. Interjection!
| PARTS OF SPEECH | function or “job” | example words | example sentences |
| Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | Google.com is a web site. I like Google.com. |
| Noun | thing or person or place | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my cat he lives in my house. We live in Kansas. |
| Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | My house is big. I like to train big horses. |
| Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My son eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. |
| Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Sara is Indian. She is beautiful. |
| Preposition | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to school on Sunday. |
| Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like girls and boys. I like sugar but I don’t like salt. |
| Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don’t know. |
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