Parts of Speech

Parts of speech include nouns and verbs. They are an important part of a complete sentence.

​Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure.

​What is a Noun?

It is a word used to identify a person, place, thing, or animal.

​Some examples of a noun are:

Per​son Place Thing Animal

girl​ city pencil cat

​boy store car dog

man school tree cow

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Open Ended

In your own words, tell me what a noun is?

Multiple Choice

What is a Noun?

• Person, place, thing, or animal.

• an action

• a verb

• I don't know

​Skittles

​Jack

Chicago

​Nike

​German Shepard

Proper

candy​

​boy

city​

store

​dog

Common

​Common and Proper Nouns

A common nouns is a simple form of a noun. Proper noun is a specific name of a noun and will have a capital letter. ​

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a common noun?

• cat, dog, Chicago, Texas

• girl, mom, city, tree

• Mr. Smith, Atlanta, state, food

• Jasper, April, Lake Tahoe, river

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a Proper noun?

• San Francisco, Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut

• Monkey, Car, Store, Sister

• Cat, Bird, Texas, Man

• Zoo, Beach, Mountain, Island

​Singular and Plural nouns

​What is the difference between the singular and plural nouns?

Singular means there is only 1 person, place, thing or animal.

Plural means there are 2 or more : person, place, thing or animals

There are 3 rules when changing nouns from singular to plural.

Common words or simple words add -s.

Words that end in -s , -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, -z you will add -es

Words that end in -y but only follow a consonant you will remove the -y add -ies.

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Multiple Select

Which words are simple nouns that added -s?

• cats

• Candies

• apples

• boxes

• cities

Multiple Select

Which nouns have specific endings that we add -es?

• families

• churches

• puppies

• taxes

• buses

Multiple Select

Which words need to remove the -y and we add -ies?

• strawberries

• families

• Dogs

• candies

• Brushes

​What is a Verb?

A verb is a word that shows action?​

The verb tells us what the Noun is doing.

Examples of a verb are: run, jump, sleep, think, watch, fall or sing.​

Open Ended

In your own words tell me What is a verb?

Multiple Select

Select all words that show an action.

• girl

• jump

• climb

• police man

• eating

Multiple Choice

Fill in the correct verb to complete the sentences.

Beth is ___ the story about Romeo and Juliet. She __ she is in the story.

• a girl in, is Beth

• Verb, noun

• reading, pretends

• Noun, Verb

Multiple Choice

Fill in the correct verb to complete the sentence.

Jackie and Mike go __ at the pool by the park. Peter and Mark __ basketball at the near by courts. Jill and her sisters ___ their bikes on the trail.

• swim, play, rides

• swam, played, rode

• swims, played, riding

• swimming, play, ride

Poll

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