Parts of Speech

What is a verb?

• A person or place

• An action word

• The color of a noun

• A word that describes a verb

What are examples of verbs?

• Run, jump, eat
• Blue, red, yellow
• Car, house, tree
• Sleepy, tired, happy

Yesterday, we studied all night for our test. What is the verb?

• studied
• yesterday

• test

• night

What is a noun?

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• Periods and question marks

• A type of verb

• A type of adverb

What are examples of nouns?

• red, tall, fast, beautiful, delicious

• running, jumping, swimming, laughing, sleeping

• book, table, dog, city, happiness

• sleeping, eating, crying

Sometimes, I go to the library to read books. What are the two nouns in this sentence?

Identify the noun: The dog is cute.

• cute

• is

• the

• dog

Identify all the nouns in this sentence: She went to the bookstore to buy fun books.

• went, buy
• bookstore, books
• fun, to
• She, to

Identify the noun: We drove carefully in the dangerous snow.

• drove

• snow
• we

• dangerous

What is an adjective?

• A form of punctuation
• A word that describes a noun

• A comma or period

• A person, place, or thing