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The LessonWhat are the eight main parts of speech?

NounPronounVerbAdjectiveAdverbPrepositionInterjectionConjunction

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What is a noun?

A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. It answers the questions who or what.

There are three main types of noun.

They are concrete (something you can touch or see), abstract (something you cannot touch or see), and proper (names a specific person or place; must be capitalized).

Examples: concrete – girl, library, or chairabstract - love or integrityproper – Memphis or Bill

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What is a pronoun?

A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. You use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you" to make your sentences less cumbersome and less repetitive.

Pronouns can be classified into several types, including the personal pronoun which refers to a specific person or thing, like he, it, or them; the demonstrative pronoun points to a noun or pronoun, like this or those; the interrogative pronoun asks a question, like which or what; the indefinite pronoun refers to an identifiable but not specific person or thing, like all or few; the relative pronoun is used to link clauses or phrases, like who or whom; the reflexive, or intensive, pronoun refers back to the subject, like myself or themselves, usually for emphasis.

Visit this link for more examples of each type of pronoun.

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What is a verb?

A verb is the action or state of being in the sentence.There are four types of verbs. They are action verbs – what the subject is doing; being verbs –

what the subject is; helping verbs – pair with an action verb; and linking verbs – links the subject to the rest of the sentence.

Examples: She manages a restaurant. Manages is an action verbHe is nice. Is is a being verb.Mom is going to the store. The helping verb here is the verb is.The boy has a green thumb. Has is the linking verb.

Verbs have different tenses, which mean they tell when something happens. Past tense usually ends in –ed and means the action happened before now. Present tense usually ends in –s and means it is happening now. Future tense usually ends in –ing and means it is happening after now. Each verb also has a participle of each tense which usually has a helping verb with it.

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What is an adjective?

An adjective describes, or modifies, a noun. It includes a, an, and the; which are called articles. The cat ran from the dog.Adjectives usually answer the questions how many, which one, and what kind. He has a blue

bike. An adjective usually comes before the noun it modifies but not always. When the adjective comes after the verb, it is called a predicate adjective. That car is expensive. An appositive is another type of adjective. It is a possessive noun used as an adjective to tell

which: That is Steve’s car.

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What is an adverb?

An adverb is a modifier that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They usually end in –ly like quickly, or are generalization words such as never or all. Adverbs usually answer the questions how much, when, where, and how.

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What is a preposition?

A preposition is a word that links parts of a sentence. A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to

the rest of the sentence.A prepositional phrase is made up of the preposition, its object (the noun that follows the

preposition) and any associated adjectives or adverbs. A prepositional phrase can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. For a list of the most common prepositions follow this link.

The cat climbed up the tree.

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What is an interjection?

Any word or phrase that shows strong emotion is an interjection. They usually are followed by an exclamation point.

Ouch, that hurt!

Phonological interjections are sounds not words like: Shh! I’m trying to study.

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What is a conjunction?

A conjunction is a word that connects words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.There are several types of conjunctions including: a coordinating conjunction, a

correlative conjunction, and a subordinating conjunction.A coordinating conjunction is used to join individual words or phrases, and independent

clauses. The most common are and, but, or, nor, for, and yet. She got milk and butter at the store.

A correlative conjunction always appear in pairs to link equivalent elements in a sentence. Neither he nor I can go to the concert.

Subordinating conjunctions introduce a dependent clause. While you may be correct, that doesn’t make you right.

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