Parts of Speech

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Noun

person, place, thing, or idea

Subject Noun

doer of an action

Possessive Noun

with an apostrophe is used to show possession

Subject pronoun

a word that replaces a noun or other pronoun and used as the subject of a sentence

Object pronoun

a word used as an object in a sentence

Possessive pronoun

a word used to show ownership or possession

Verb

a word that can express actions, events, or states of being

Main verb

expresses main action

Helping verb

“helps” another main verb

Linking verb

“links” the subject of a sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate

Infinitive

the word “to” with an action

Examples of linking or be verbs

am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, smell, look, taste, remain, feel, appear, sound, seem, become, grow, stand, turn

Examples of helping verbs

can, could, shall, should, will, would, have, has, had, may, must, might, do, did, done, does

Interjection

a word added to a sentence to convey emotion

Article/Determiner

the words A, AN, or THE used before a noun of adjective-noun

Adjective

a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun; it answers the questions: Which one? What kind? How many?

Adverb

a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb; it answers the questions: Where? When? How? *usually end in LY

Preposition

connects nouns, pronouns, and other phrases to other words in the sentence; A prepositional phrase is made up of a preposition and an object and can have an article or adjective

Examples of Prepositions

aboard, above, about, according to, across, after, below, besides, during, except, for, from, off, inside, instead, over, outside, past, until

Conjunction

connects words, phrases, and sentences in a sentence

Examples of Coordinating Conjunctions

and, or, but, for, so, yet, nor, either, neither

Examples of Subordinating Conjunctions

after, although, as, as if, as long as, because, before, if, in order that, since, so, so that, that