Parts of speech

• What are the 8 parts of speech?

  Noun

  Pronoun

  Adjective

  Adverb

  Verb

  Preposition

  Conjunction

  Interjection
• A word that names a person, a place or a thing

  Noun
• Boy, Sam, cat, Paris

  Noun
• A word that is used instead of a noun (he/she/it/my/myself)

  Pronoun
• A word that describes a person or thing

  Adjective
• Pretty, easy, thin

  Adjective
• A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.

  Verb
• Jump, run, said

  Verb
• A word that tells you more about a verb, adjective, or adverb by answering one of five questions: How? When? Where? How often? To what extent?

  Adverb
• A word that is used before a noun or a pronoun to connect it to another word in the sentence. It is usually used to show location, direction, time, and so forth. (on, in, to, from, of)

  Preposition
• A word that joins parts of a sentence together (and, or, but)

  Conjunctions
• A short sound, word or phrase used to express the speaker's emotion.

  (Wow, hmm, oh dear)

  Interjections
• what are the 7 common coordinating conjunctions? (FANBOYS)

  for

  and

  nor

  but

  or

  yet

  so