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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 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 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 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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    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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