PART OF SPEECH

Front

What is a part of speech?

Back

A part of speech is a category of words that have similar grammatical properties. The main parts of speech in English are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

Front

What is a noun?

Back

A noun is a part of speech that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.

Front

What is a verb?

Back

A verb is a part of speech that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being.

Front

What is an adjective?

Back

An adjective is a part of speech that describes or modifies a noun.

Front

What is an adverb?

Back

An adverb is a part of speech that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb, often indicating manner, time, place, or degree.

Front

What is a preposition?

Back

A preposition is a part of speech that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence, often indicating direction, location, or time.

Front

What is a pronoun?

Back

A pronoun is a part of speech that replaces a noun to avoid repetition, such as he, she, it, they.

Front

What is a conjunction?

Back

A conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses, such as and, but, or.

Front

What is an interjection?

Back

An interjection is a part of speech that expresses strong emotion or surprise, often standing alone, such as 'Wow!' or 'Oh!'

Front

Identify the part of speech: 'quickly'.

Back

Adverb.