Grade 9 Parts of speech

A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• article

A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• article

A word naming an attribute of (describes) a noun or pronoun, such as sweet, red, or technical.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• article

A word that is used with a noun to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun,

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• article

used to refer to specific or particular nouns

• a / an

• the

used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns

• a / an

• the

Definite article

• a / an

• the

Indefinite article

• a / an

• the

A word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase

• noun

• pronoun

• verb

A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group,

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Article