Parts of speech

Part of speech Definition Examples Sentences

Nouns A word used to Audience, flock, a The noun was used
identify a person, team, group, village, to express an
place, or thing. city, and country. important event
inside the story.
Pronouns A pronoun is a word I, me, myself, herself, The pronoun was
that replaces a noun her, him, his, hers, used incorrectly in
in a sentence. we, us, ourselves. paragraph 6 when
jimmy used ‘his’
Verbs a word used to Eat, walk, talk, move, The verb in
describe an action, sleep, hide, run, paragraph 10 was to
state, or occurrence, smack, throw, fly, describe jimmies
and forming the main drive, ride, push, pull, actions.
part of the predicate of
hit, punch.
a sentence,
Adjectives a word or phrase Tall, skinny, long, The additives used
naming an attribute, amazing, superior, describes Tom as a
added to or short, smart, artistic, superior and tall.
grammatically related Humorous.
to a noun to modify or
describe it.
Adverbs a word or phrase that
Quickly, The adverb was used
modifies or qualifies an in this story to explain
adjective, verb, or other lightly, firmly, how quickly Bob ran
adverb or a word
group, expressing a abruptly. to the door.
relation of place, time
Prepositions a word governing, and He sat on the chair, The prepositions are
usually preceding, a there is some milk in used to show the milk
noun or pronoun and the fridge, the cat has spilled and
expressing a relation to jumped on the car, Cosette has cleaned
another word or
she lost her phone on it up.
element in the clause
the beach.
Conjunctions a word used to connect And, but, then, as, if. The conjunction
clauses or sentences or connected two
to coordinate words in sentences together.
the same clause
Interjections an abrupt remark made Oops, hurrah, The nasty kids say
especially as an aside EWW! When they
or interruption. alas, EWW, saw an interjection
ouch, huh. just when the
gruesome teacher
walked in.

Nathan Briggs