Parts of Speech

What is a noun?

• Action word or state-of-being word
• Person, place, thing, or idea
• A word describing a position or direction
• An interrupter word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What is a pronoun?

• Action word or state-of-being word
• Person, place, thing, or idea
• A word used in place of a noun
• A noun that is very specific

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

What is a verb?

• Action word or state-of-being word
• Person, place, thing, or idea
• A word describing a position or direction
• An interrupter word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What is a preposition?

• A word that shows action or a "state of being" such as "am" or "felt" (as in "I felt sick.")
• Person, place, thing, or idea
• A word describing a relationship between a noun and another word; sometimes a  position or direction
• An interrupter word

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

Which is an example of a noun?

• Love
• Skip
• Brown
• Joyfully

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Which is an example of a state of being or linking verb?

• Try
• Feel
• Gratefully
• Run

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

What is an example of an action verb?

• am
• red
• run
• to

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Which is an example of a preposition?

• scared
• above
• these
• him

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.K.1E

Which is an example of a pronoun?

• themselves
• above
• for
• him

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D

Which is an example of an interjection?

• cut
• eject
• No!
• Before

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1A