Parts of speech

Teach your students more about parts of speech

1. Parts of Speech Grade 7

2. Objectives To recognize different parts of speech. To identify different parts of speech.

3. What is meant by part of speech? The parts of speech explains how a word is used in a sentence . There are eight main parts of speech Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Prepositions Conjunctions interjections .

4. Noun A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing , or idea. Examples: Person: girl, John Place : school , hospital Thing : desk, laptop Animal: dog , parrot Idea: joy, freedom Nouns can be concrete or abstrat.

5. Concrete noun A concrete noun is simply a person, place or thing that is experienced through one or more of your five senses . You can tell if something is a concrete noun because you experience it through one of your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. If you cannot see, hear, taste, touch, or smell it, it’s not a concrete noun.

6. Abstract noun An abstract noun is a noun that refers to an intangible concept such as an emotion, a feeling, a quality, or an idea .

7. Verb A verb is a word that shows action or state of being. The action may be physical or mental. Examples: They were jumping in the pool. Jason introduced the new course. They have lived here for a long time. State of being Am are was Action: Run think dream

8. Adjective An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronpun. Adjectives tell how many, what kind, or which one. Examples: Happy Enthusiastic More Five This green

9. adverb An adverb is a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Examples: How: perfectly When : yesterday Where: here To what extent: completely

10. pronoun A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Examples: I Us We T hem They There are subject pronouns and object pronouns.

11. Subject pronoun A pronoun that takes the place of one or more nouns in the subject of a sentence. Examples: I You He She It We They You

12. object pronoun A pronoun that follows an action verb or a preposition. Examples: Me You Him Her It Us Them

13. interjection An interjection is a word that expresses emotion or strong feeling. Examples: Uh-oh! Wow! Hey! Oh no! Hurray! “ Awesome !” , shouthed the delighted fan.

14. conjunction A conjuntion is a word that joins words or groups of words. Examples: And But For Neither Yet Because So or

15. preposition A prepostion relates a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence. Examples: About During Beside Over With Across From The coach looked across the field a smiled at the players.

16. Assessment Identify the part of speech of every word in the following sentences. Her sparkling eyes shone under the dazzling stars. Jane ran into the peaceful park. Wow! Come and feast your eyes on this goreous cake. He felt a kind of happiness mingled with regret.

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