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

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

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

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

Which is an example of a noun?

• Love
• Skip
• Brown
• Joyfully

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

• Try
• Feel
• Gratefully
• Run

What is an example of an action verb?

• am
• red
• run
• to

Which is an example of a preposition?

• scared
• above
• these
• him

Which is an example of a pronoun?

• themselves
• above
• for
• him

Which is an example of an interjection?

• cut
• eject
• No!
• Before