1. What is a part of speech?

2. Each part of speech tells how the word is used. It does not tell what the word is.

3. A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, or thing. Town School Dog Boat Cake Sled Bike Book Pencil

4. Learning To Identify Parts Of Speech Language Arts Lesson VII

5. Books are made of ink, paper, and glue. • In this sentence, "books" is a noun, the subject of the sentence.

6. Ann waits patiently while Bobbooks the tickets. Here "books" is a verb. Bobis thesubject.

7. A verbdescribes something about the subject of the sentence. It express actions, events, or states of being. Run Draw Hit Eat Sleep Go Crawl Walk Skip

8. Wewalk down the street. In this sentence, "walk" is a verb, and its subject is the pronoun "we."

9. A preposition links nouns, pronouns, and phrases to other words in a sentence. On Beneath Against Beside Over With About Above After

10. The mail carrierstood on the walk. “Walk" is a noun, which is part of a prepositional phrase describing where the mail carrier stood.

11. A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun. I You She He We Her They Me Him Them It Us

12. Wewill meet at the library at 3:30 p.m. We is the pronoun which takes the place of a noun, such as Bob and Ann.

13. An adjective describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun. Small Dark Dank Battered Large Yellow Big Wide Dirty

14. An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. quickly slowly boldly badly silently calmly afoul loudly eagerly

15. The boldlyspokenwordswould return to haunt the boy. The adverb "boldly" modifies the adjective "spoken."

16. A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

17. Here, a preposition locates the noun "book" in space or in time. The bookison the table. The bookisbeneath the table. The bookis leaning against the table. The bookisbeside the table.

18. PRACTICE IDENTIFY theyellowwords: Benwatched the catclimb the tree. The ball bounced across the street. The fireburned slowly. Joe quickly counted the change. The doll-shapedballoonfloated over the treetops.

19. PRACTICE IDENTIFY the yellowwords: My firstteacherwas Miss Crawford. Sue has on a red dress. The theater is on a hill. The dog was dirty and had fleas on it.

20. More Practice On your computers go to: www.abcteach.com Click on Worksheets. Search: Parts of Speech. Do worksheets Brainstorm Form: Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns, and Verbs only.

21. TOMORROW We'll do computer work. You will complete a table of the parts of speech.