Part of speech definition review

noun

a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

verb

a word that shows action, links another word to the subject, helps another verb, or merely indicates existence

preposition

a word that shows how a noun or a pronoun is related to some other word in the sentence

pronoun

a word that takes the place of a noun

conjunction

a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses

adjective

a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun; answers the questions what kind, which one, how many, how much, whose

adverb

a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb; answers the questions where, when, how, how often, or to what extent

interjection

an exclamatory word that is not related to the other words in a sentence