English Parts of Speech

A word or phrase that can be substituted for a noun or a noun phrase.

A word/ phrase that modifies an adjective, verb, or adverb by answering how?, when?, and where?

Identify the pronoun: She loves to eat ice cream.

Identify the interjection: After it started raining, well, we went home.

This is used to describe action, state, or occurrence of the noun in a sentence.

A word that relates a noun or pronoun following it to another word in the same sentence.

True or false: a noun can be linking, helping, or action.

Standalone, in a sentence

Beautifully, slowly, badly, happily, noisily, easily

A person, place, thing, or idea. These are often used as the subjects of a sentence.

Time, place, direction, agency, device, purpose, connection, origin

Singular, plural, compound, common, proper

Run, sing, is, jump, talk

Personal, possessive, relative, demonstrative, indefinite, reciprocal

I, me, mine, he, myself, hers

For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Identify the adjective: The chocolate cake tasted delicous.

Identify the noun: The dog ran very fast.

Identify the adverb: I met him yesterday.

Beside, behind, in, on, under, over

Which is an example of an abstract noun?

True or false: an adjective is a pos naming an attribute related to the noun it is describing.

Identify the verb: He is extremely smart in all subjects.

Time, place, manner, degree, frequency

An abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption.

Purple, beautiful, cold, careful, angery, courageous

Identify the preposition: She walked down the street to her house.

Identify the conjunction: Meredith and Christina used to be coworkers.

Possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite

Is used to connect other words or groups of words together.

Which is not an interjection?

True or false: a conjunction can be coordinating, correlative, or subordinating.