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Parts of Speech


Grammar Exercises



Nouns: a person, place, or thing


Pronouns: The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.


Adjectives:
  1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.

Verbs: The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.


Adverbs:  A part of speech that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Adverbs usually answer such questions as “How?” “Where?” “When?” or “To what degree?” The following italicized words are adverbs: “He ran well”; “She ran very well”; “The mayor is highly capable.”

Prepositions: a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word 
Conjunction: A word that joins words or groups of words. There are three kinds of conjunctions: coordinating, correlative, and subordinating.


Interjections: any member of a class of words expressing emotion, distinguished in most languages by their use in grammatical isolation, as Hey! Oh! Ouch! Ugh!

  • Identifying Interjections

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Objects:



Subject of Compliments:


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Word of Week

Pacable

able to be appeased; willing to forgive

 



 

 




Spelling List

P Words


 

1. Pamphlets

2. Parallel

3. Peculiar

4. Perceive

5. Personal

6. Physical

7. Preferred

8. Principle

9. Psychology

10. Professor