Parts of Speech
Nine parts of speech. Terms and their definitions.
Terms
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- List of adverbs
- slowly, intelligently, well, yesterday, tomorrow, here, everywhere
- List of verbs
- walk, talk, think, believe, live, like, want
- Pronoun
- Used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun.
- List of nouns
- cowboy, theatre, box, thought, tree, kindness, arrival
- When do you use the article "an"?
- Before a noun that begins with a vowel.
- preposition
- It usually comes before a noun or a pronoun or noun phrase. It joins the noun to some other part of the sentence.
- Adjective
- Describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun.(what kind, how many, which one)
- Adverb
- Usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. (how, when, where, and why)
- Noun
- A person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action
- Article
- introduces a noun.
- Verb
- Describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something).
- List of pronouns
- I, you, he, she, it, we, they
- These are adjectives
- big, yellow, thin, amazing, beautiful, quick, important
- List of interjections.
- Ouch!, Hello!, Hurray!, Oh no!, Ha!
- Interjection
- Unusual word, stands alone. expresses emotion or suprise. followed by an exclamation mark.
- Examples of conjuntions
- and, but, or, so, because
- When do you use the article "a"?
- Before a noun that begins with a consonant.
- List of articles.
- the,a,an
- List of prepositions
- on, in, by, with, under, through, at
- Conjunction
- Joins two words, phrases or sentences together.