3. Parts of speech lesson.notebook
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EIGHT IS ENOUGH
EVERYTHING WE SAY AND WRITE IS
COMPOSED OF EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH.
1. NOUN
Names a person, place, thing, or
idea
book, symphony, spider
2. adjective Modifies a noun gorgeous, humid, tedious
3. verb
Expresses an action or a state of
being
walk, speak, study
4. adverb
modifies a verb, adjective, or
adverb
terribly, wonderfully, quickly
5. conjunction links words, phrases, and clauses and, or, thus
6. pronoun replaces a noun she, he, it
7. preposition
indicates the spatial, logical, or
temporal relationship between a
word and the rest of a sentence
on, under, through
8. interjection
Doesn't fall into any of the other
categories; often expresses
emotion ofsurprise
Hey!, Whoa!, Gosh darnit!
8. Parts of speech lesson.notebook
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John and Mary are playing with a ball.
John has on yellow shoes.
Mary is taller than John.
Pronouns
Pronouns take the place of nouns.
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they
them
she
him
her we
he
us
I
me
it
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Adjective
word that modifies a noun or pronoun pull for
definition
1. The __________ man could easily dunk a
basketball.
2. The girl ran around the _______ tree.
3. They bought the _________ bananas
from the ___________ store.
4. Usually, we share the __________
supplies.
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