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Your guide: Miss RabiaReads every story twice: once for fun, once for the paper.
“Wow! That was an incredible match.” Six words, and almost every one does a different job. Can you name the jobs before you read on?
Your book gives eight parts of speech, each with a definition, its types and example sentences.
Noun: a word that names a person, a place, a thing or an idea. “We visited the library after school.”
Pronoun: a word that takes the place of a noun. “She is going to the market.”
Verb: a word that expresses an action or a state of being. “She runs every morning.”
Adjective: a word that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. “She wore a blue dress.”
Adverb: modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb; it tells how, when, where and to what extent. “He ran very quickly.”
Preposition: shows the relationship between a noun (or a pronoun) and other words. “The cat is under the table.”
Conjunction: connects words, phrases or clauses. “Although it was raining, we went for a walk.”
Interjection: expresses strong emotion or surprise; the sentence after it starts with a capital letter. “Wow! That was an amazing performance.”
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“Wow! That was an incredible match.” Six words, and almost every one does a different job. Can you name the jobs before you read on?
Your book gives eight parts of speech, each with a definition, its types and example sentences.
Noun: a word that names a person, a place, a thing or an idea. “We visited the library after school.”
Pronoun: a word that takes the place of a noun. “She is going to the market.”
Verb: a word that expresses an action or a state of being. “She runs every morning.”
Adjective: a word that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. “She wore a blue dress.”
Adverb: modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb; it tells how, when, where and to what extent. “He ran very quickly.”
Preposition: shows the relationship between a noun (or a pronoun) and other words. “The cat is under the table.”
Conjunction: connects words, phrases or clauses. “Although it was raining, we went for a walk.”
Interjection: expresses strong emotion or surprise; the sentence after it starts with a capital letter. “Wow! That was an amazing performance.”
A word's part of speech is the job it does in its sentence: naming (noun, pronoun), acting (verb), describing (adjective, adverb), linking (preposition, conjunction) or exclaiming (interjection).
Q1. A(i): Label the nouns, verbs and conjunctions: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
Nouns: fox, dog. Verb: jumps. Conjunction: none.
Q2. A(v): Label the nouns, verbs and conjunctions: “Because it was raining, they decided to stay indoors.”
Conjunction: Because. Verbs: was raining, decided, to stay. Nouns: none (it and they are pronouns).
✗ Calling “this” a pronoun in “This cake is delicious.”
✓ Before a noun, “this” describes it: a demonstrative adjective. Alone, as in “This book is mine”, it can be a pronoun.
✗ Calling “after” a conjunction in “We visited the library after school.”
✓ Here “after” is followed by a noun (school), so it is a preposition. It is a conjunction only when a clause follows.
✗ Writing “Ouch! that hurts me.”
✓ Your book says the sentence after an interjection starts with a capital letter: “Ouch! That hurts me.”
1. The cat is hiding ____ the bed. (preposition)
(b) Only “under” shows where the cat is in relation to the bed.
2. ____! This is a beautiful dress. (interjection)
(c) “Wow” expresses surprise, and the sentence after it starts with a capital.
3. In “He ran very quickly”, the word “very” is:
(d) It modifies another adverb (quickly) and tells to what extent (p. 12).
4. In “This book is mine”, the word “mine” is:
(a) No noun follows it; it replaces “my book” (p. 11).
5. Which pair does your book list as correlative conjunctions?
(b) The book lists either…or, neither…nor, both…and, not only…but also (p. 12).
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