the eight parts of speech with baseball evan gilman and clayton wilms
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The Noun
• Definition: The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
• Little roller up along first, behind the bag, and it gets through Buckner!
• The umpire has found some cork in Sosa’s broken bat!
The Pronoun
• Definition: The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.
• I can’t believe I am holding this legendary ball in my own hands.
• He went all out to make that diving catch.
The Verb
• Definition: The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.
• I can’t believe he climbed to the top of the wall and caught that ball.
• He really knows how to hit.
The Adverb
• Definition: The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
• He had to react very quickly to catch that ball.• He looked back at the umpire immediately.
The Adjective
• Definition: The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
• He ran fast and slid far to catch the baseball.• His steady head and quick bat earned him a hit.
The Preposition
• Definition: A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and in regard to.
• He blew the call at first base!• Ripken crushed the ball to left field.
The Conjunction
• Definition: The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
• He caught the ball and gunned out the base runner.• He could have just tagged third base, but he threw it to
first instead.