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Parts of Speech describe the main roles that words play in sentences. There are eight main parts of speech: nouns name people, places, things, or ideas; pronouns take the place of nouns; verbs express actions or states of being; adjectives describe nouns; adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs; prepositions establish relationships between nouns and the rest of the sentence; conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses; and interjections express emotions.

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Parts of Speech Printable

Parts of Speech describe the main roles that words play in sentences. There are eight main parts of speech: nouns name people, places, things, or ideas; pronouns take the place of nouns; verbs express actions or states of being; adjectives describe nouns; adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs; prepositions establish relationships between nouns and the rest of the sentence; conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses; and interjections express emotions.

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Parts of Speech

The jobs words do in sentences


PART MAIN JOB EXAMPLES
Name a person, lady, road, tree,
Nouns place, thing, or love, dream,
idea pencil, Bob
Take the place of
Pronouns he, she, it, you, we
a noun
ran, flew, trips,
Express action or a
Verbs was, is, showed,
state of being
jumps
new, shiny, fat,
Adjectives Describe a noun
thorough, funny
quickly,
Describe or modify
repeatedly,
Adverbs a verb, adjective,
precisely (often
or another adverb
end in –ly)
Establish a
over, around,
relationship
through, during,
Prepositions between the noun
according to,
and the rest of the
above, beside
sentence
Connect words, and, but, or, nor,
Conjunctions phrases, and however,
clauses moreover
Ouch! Eek! Ow!
Express surprise or Yikes! Hooray!
Interjections
other emotions (often have an
exclamation point)
Articles Help define nouns the, an, a

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