Speech What is it?

Example

In elementary school you  Persons

probably learned that a noun  Places
refers to a person, place, or  Things
thing. In addition, nouns name  Qualities
NOUNS qualities, feelings, concepts,  Feelings
activities, and measures.  Concepts
 Activities
 Measures
Pronouns are words used in  Without
place of nouns. As noun pronouns: Scott
substitutes, pronouns provide gave the book to
variety and efficiency. Kelli so that Kelli
could use the
PRONOUNS book to study.
 With pronouns:
Scott gave the
book to Kelli so
that she could
use it to study.
Verbs express an action, an  answer
occurrence, or a state of being.  arrive
 ask
 be
VERBS  borrow
 break
 buy
 catch
Words that describe nouns or  effective
pronouns are called adjectives.  green
They often answer  sensitive
the questions What kind? How  excellent
ADJECTIVES many? and Which one? The  intelligent
adjectives in the following  small
sentences are italicized.
 expensive
 long
 successful
Words that modify (describe or  now
limit) verbs, adjectives, or other  really
adverbs are  evenly
adverbs. Adverbs often answer  only
ADVERBS the questions When? How?  too
Where? and To what  greatly
extent?
  rather
 very
Prepositions join nouns and  Brian often talked
pronouns to other words in a with Ms.
sentence. As the word Tokuyama.
itself suggests (pre meaning  Brian often talked
“before”), a preposition is a about Ms.
word in a position before Tokuyama.
its object (a noun or pronoun).  Brian often talked
Prepositions are used in to Ms. Tokuyama.
phrases to show a relationship
between the object of the
PREPOSITIONS preposition and another word in
the sentence.
In the following sentence notice
how the preposition changes
the relation of the
object (Ms. Tokuyama) to the
verb (talked )
Words that connect other words  Yukie, Dan, and
or groups of words are Kristi are all
conjunctions. The most looking for jobs.
CONJUNCTIONS common conjunctions are and, (Joins equal
but, or, and nor. words.)
 You may be
interviewed by a
human resources
officer or by a
supervising
manager.

INTERJECTIONS Words expressing strong  Wow! Did you see

feelings are interjections. what she wrote in
Interjections standing alone her e-mail
are followed by exclamation message?
marks.  Oops! I forgot to
send the
attachment.