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What is a noun?
A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. There are more nouns in the English language than any other kind of word.
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What is an article?
A, an, and the are special words called articles. They are noun signals. They can often tip you off that there’s a noun coming up in the sentence.
The noun could be the very next word after the article.
A clown ate the apple.Or it could be one or more words later.A roly-poly, floppy-eared, hilariously funny clown
ate the big, red delicious apple.
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What is a Pronoun?A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.
Almost anything a noun can do, a pronoun can do, too.
Pronouns are handy little words because when you use them, you don’t have to keep repeating nouns all the time.
• Example: Jennifer said that Jennifer was going to give Jennifer’s cats Jennifer’s cats’ food.
• Example with pronouns: Jennifer said that she was going to give her cats their food.
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What is a Conjunction?A conjunction is a word that joins other words or parts of
sentences together. Conjunctions are like glue.• Here is an example of conjunctions joining words
together.David and Jennifer are brother and sister.
• Here is an example of a conjunction joining parts of a sentence together.
I ran as fast as I could; however, I still missed the pie throwing contest.
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DGP HomeworkMonday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb,
verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection)my sister jumped on her new bed
Tuesday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection)
four cats ran quickly through the yard
Wednesday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection)
i rode my old yellow bike
Thursday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection)
did your dog chew the blue slippers
Friday: Find the part of speech for each word (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, interjection)
monica likes the cat with green eyes