Parts of Speech

a person, place, thing, or idea

• noun

• pronoun

• adjective

• adverb

a word that replaces a noun

• adjective

• gerund

• pronoun

• noun

expresses action or state of being

• adverb

• verb

• participle

• adjective

a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun

• adverb

• prepositional phrases

• adjective

• conjunctions

a, an, the

• article adjectives

• common conjunctions

• common prepositions

• gerund

What kind?

Which one?

How many?

Whose?

• adverb questions

• inquiry questions

• newspaper questions

• adjective questions

a word that modifies, or describes, a verb, adjective, or another adverb

• noun

• adverb

• adjective

• pronoun

When?

Where?

Why?

How?

To what extent?

• inquiry questions

• adverb questions

• adjective questions

• teacher questions

a phrase ending in a noun that modifies a noun or a verb

• noun

• common prepositions

• prepositional phrase

• gerund

to, of, about, at, before, after, by, behind, during, for, from, in, over, under, with

• direct objects

• common conjunctions

• infinitives

• common prepositions