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PART OF SPEECH |
FUNCTION |
EXAMPLE WORDS |
EXAMPLE SENTENCE |
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NOUNS |
A thing. | Muffins, Cat, Daughter
, Dog. |
My Sister likes to play in the mud. |
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PRONOUNS |
Names | Peter, Ben, Jack, Alex. | Go tell Annie she is going to be late. |
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VERBS |
An action | Sleep, Breath, Walk, Talk. | I went to Sleep at 10:00PM. |
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ADJECTIVES |
Describing words | Very, so, extremely. | The car was extremely fast. |
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ADVERBS |
A word that describes a doing word. | Daily, quickly, use | He quickly ran to the store. |
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PREPOSITIONS |
To describe where an object is. | Behind, On, In, Of | She hid behind the table. |
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INTERJECTIONS |
A word used to explain someone’s feeling. | Wow! Oh no! Yuck! | Yay! I am so happy! |
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CONJUNCTIONS |
Words to connect two nouns. | And, before, because | I walked to him and said yes. |