Parts of Speech

● Names person, place or thing

Examples:

captain, swimmers, Maria Tallchief, team,

Stratford-on-Avon, stories, “The Scarlet Ibis”,

justice, honesty

NOUNS

● Takes place of one or more nouns or

pronouns

PRONOUNS

● Refers to one(s) speaking (first person),

spoken to (second person), or spoken

about (third person)

Examples:

I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours

he, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its, they, them,

their, theirs

PERSONAL PRONOUN

● Refers to subject and directs action of

verb back to subject

Examples:

myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself,

herself, itself, themselves

REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

● Refers to and emphasizes noun or

another pronoun

Examples:

myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself,

herself, itself, themselves

INTENSIVE PRONOUN

● Refers to specific one(s) of group

Examples:

this, that, these, those

DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN

● Introduces question

Examples:

what, which, who, whom, whose

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

● Introduces subordinate clause and refers

to noun or pronoun outside clause

Examples:

that, which, who, whom, whose

RELATIVE PRONOUN

● Refers to one(s) not specifically named

Examples:

all, any, anyone, both, each, either, everybody,

many, none, nothing

INDEFINITE PRONOUN

● Modifies noun or pronoun by telling what

kind, which one, how many or how much

Examples:

an old, flea-bitten dog; a Sioux custom; that one;

the twelve red roses; more water

ADJECTIVE

● Shows action or state of being

VERB

● Expresses physical or mental activity

Examples:

paint, jump, write, know, imagine

ACTION VERB

● Connects subject with word identifying

or describing it

Examples:

appear, be, seem, become, feel, look, smell,

sound, taste

LINKING VERB

● Combines with another verb to form a

verb phrase

Examples:

be, have, may, can, shall, will, would

HELPING (AUXILIARY) VERB

● Modifies verb, adjective, or adverb by

telling how, when, where, or to what

extent

Examples:

drives carefully, quite dangerous, shortly

afterward, arrived there late

ADVERB

● Relates noun or pronoun to another

word

Examples:

across, between, into, near, of, on, with, aside

from, instead of, next to

PREPOSITION

● Joins words or word groups

CONJUNCTION

● Joins words or word groups used in same

way

Examples:

and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet

COORDINATING CONJUNCTION

● A pair of conjunctions that join parallel

words or word groups

Examples:

both...and, either...or, neither...nor, not

only...but (also)

CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTION

● Begins subordinate clause and connects

it to independent clause

Examples:

as though, because, if, since, so that, than,

when, where, while

SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION

● Expresses emotion

Examples:

hey, oops, ouch, wow

INTERJECTION

Identify the part of speech of the bolded word based on

its use in the sentence.

1. The fine feathers of young birds are called down.

2. She wore a down vest.

3. Did the tackle down the ball in the end zone?

4. Her poster fell down.

5. My cousin lives down the street from my school.

6. Let’s get a drink of water.

DETERMINING PARTS OF SPEECH:

PRACTICE

7. Did you water the plants?

8. Most water sports offer good exercise.

9. He promised us that he would meet us after the

game.

10. That CD didn’t cost much.

11. I never said that.

DETERMINING PARTS OF SPEECH:

PRACTICE, CONT’D.