Eight Parts of Speech

• Verb: Expresses actions, events or states of being. For example, in the sentence 'Billy throws the ball,' 'throws' is the verb.
• Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, phrase, clause or another adverb. Adverbs can be found in various parts of a sentence but usually ends with '-ly.' For example, in the sentence 'Billy quickly throws the ball,' 'quickly' is the adverb.
• Noun: Used to name an abstract idea, animal, person, place or thing. Sentences typically contain more than one noun. For example, in the sentence 'Billy met his friends at the zoo,' the words 'Billy,' 'friends' and 'zoo' are all nouns.
• Pronoun: A word that replaces a noun to prevent repetition of the same words. For example, in the sentence 'He was glad they enjoyed looking at exotic animals,' the words 'he' and 'they' are pronouns replacing the nouns 'Billy' and 'friends.'
• Adjective: Describes or quantifies a noun or pronoun. Adjectives usually precede the word they are modifying. For example, in the sentence 'Billy washed his aqua shirt at the laundromat,' the word 'aqua' is an adjective that modifies 'shirt.'
• Preposition: Acts as a link between nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. For example, in the sentence 'Billy washed his aqua shirt at the laundromat,' the word 'at' is the preposition.
• Conjunction: Also serve as a link between words or phrases. Sometimes conjunctions also act as prepositions or adverbs. For example, in the sentence 'Billy swims at the pool but not at the lake,' the word 'but' is the conjunction.
• Interjection: Conveys emotion in a sentence. For example, in the sentence 'Ouch, I stubbed my toe,' 'ouch' is the interjection.