Parts of Speech Discussion

Parts of speech

Parts of speech

by Alaine Tobias -
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1. **Nouns**: words that name a person, place, thing, or idea.

   - Examples: "nouns", "pronouns", "information", "qualities", "quantities", "adverbs", "verbs", "adjectives", "extent", "action", "relationships", "sentence", "phrases", "clauses"


2. **Pronouns**: words that replace nouns.

   - Examples: "their", "a"


3. **Verbs**: words that express an action or a state of being.

   - Examples: "modify", "providing", "indicating", "performed", "show", "connect", "help", "build"


4. **Adjectives**: words that describe or modify nouns and pronouns.

   - Examples: "additional", "other", "complex"


5. **Adverbs**: words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.

   - Examples: "often", "when", "how", "where"


6. Prepositions**: words that show relationships between a noun (or a pronoun) and other words in a sentence.

   - Examples: "between", "in"


7. Conjunctions**: words that connect words, phrases, or clauses.

   - Examples: "and"