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Parts of Speech
by Mark E. Smith
Nouns: Names of people, places, or things. There are two kinds of nouns:
common nouns (a general name of a person, place, or thing), or proper
nouns (identifying a specific person, place, or thing).
Examples: The student attends school daily. .i1./1lJ:- speaks Spanish
well.
Verbs: Words that describe action.
Examples: Nathanial raced to the airport, but he still missed his flight.
Adjectives: words that describe nouns. Examples: He owned a white boat.
Adverbs: Words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Adverbs
tell when, where, how, and to what degree.
Example: The dog runs clumsily (Clumsily describes how the dog runs.)
Conjunctions: Words that join words or groups of words.
Examples: Rebecca and Flint were in an automobile accident. Their car was
wrecked, but no one was injured.
Prepositions: Words that are used to show the relationship between a noun
or a pronoun in a sentence.
Examples: The island across the bay is owned by the city.
Pronouns: Words that take the place of nouns.
Examples: Montgomery made it to school in time, but he didn't have any
time to spare.
I told him to get an earlier start in the morning.
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