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Definitions for the seven main parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Each term comes with an explanation and examples.
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TERM 1
DEFINITION 1 A noun is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.Ex.) child, town, granite, kindness, government, elephant, and Taiwan TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.Ex.) I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 An adjective describes or modifies a noun.Ex.) What is it? How Many? Which One? TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause, or sentence.Ex.) gently, quite, then, there TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 A preposition is where something takes place (such as 'at' the store), when or why something takes place (such as 'before' dinner), or general descriptive information (such as the girl 'with' the cool tattoo).
TERM 6
DEFINITION 6 A conjunction is used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.Ex.) and, but, if TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 An interjection or exclamation is a word used to express a particular emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker.Ex.) uh, er, um, Ahem, Ugh