Parts of Speech

Question 1

Verb

Answer 1

An action or a state. What is being done.

Examples: (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must

Question 2

Noun

Answer 2

A person, place, or thing.

Examples: pen, dog, work, music, London, teacher, John

Question 3

Adjective

Answer 3

Describing a noun.

Examples: good, big, red, well, interesting

Question 4

Adverb

Answer 4

Describes a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.

Examples: quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really

Question 5

Pronoun

Answer 5

Small words that take the place of a noun so it isn’t repeated over and over.
If we wrote the sentence “Please give this letter to Rosa”, we can replace the nouns:
Please give it to her.
It = the letter.
Her = Rosa.

Pronoun Examples: I, you, he, she, some, it

Question 6

Preposition

Answer 6

A word that links a noun to another word.

Examples: to, at, after, on, but

Question 7

Conjunction

Answer 7

A words that joined clauses or sentences and words. A word that combines two clauses to make one full sentence.
Examples: and, but, when

Question 8

Interjection

Answer 8

A short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence.

Examples: oh!, ouch!, hi!, well