The Great Eight: Parts of Speech

This pesky part of speech causes all kinds of trouble, but without IT, sentences would be a cumbersome mess. YOU and I (or is IT ME?) shall master THIS professional noun THAT can take stand in for any noun.

• preposition

• conjunction

• pronoun

• adjective

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CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

What type of bird is this handsome little fellow?

• Tufted Titmouse

• Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker

• Downy Woodpecker

• Red Headed Zebra Finch

This part of speech is used to describe or modify a noun. Some examples of this part of speech are spicy, chunky, loud, stunning, circumspect, retrospective, irreverent, classy, silly, and good.

• adjective

• adverb

• verb

• noun

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CCSS.L.9-10.4B

This word can be a noun or an adjective. When used as a noun it means a device or association that assists in remembering something; when used as an adjective is means aiding or designed to aid the memory.

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Imagine a world without people, places, or things. Horrific, right? That's why we need this part of speech that can be singular, plural, collective, proper, common, tangible, or intangible (just to name a few).

• conjunction

• verb

• interjection

• noun

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

• Ralphie

• Clark Griswold

• Yukon Cornelius

• Ebenezer Scrooge

A sentence is NOT a sentence without a subject and this part of speech that is used to refer to actions (what things do) and states of being (how things are). For example, the words describe, eat, and rotate are _____.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.4B

This part of speech is a word (or phrase) that expresses sudden or strong feelings and is grammatically independent from the words around it (it doesn’t modify or get modified, like other parts of speech). Some of my favorites are whoa, meh, woot, holla, noice, oof, and yikes.

• interjections

• conjunctions

• adverbs

• nouns

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CCSS.L.9-10.4A

In the film Elf, Buddy (Will Ferrell) is accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. The orange words are examples of the part of speech that are used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object.

• preposition

• conjunction

• interjection

• pronoun

What is the function of a conjunction?

• shortens and combines two words to make one word

• stands in for a noun or pronoun

• connects words, phrases, or clauses

• modifies or describes a verb

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

CCSS.L.9-10.3