Parts of Speech Vocabulary
noun
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
preposition
A preposition is a word used to show a relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence.
pronoun
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun or a pronoun. The word that a personal pronoun refers to it is called its antecedent.
part of speech
A term in traditional grammar for the eight categories into which words are classified according to their functions in sentences.
verb
A verb is a word used to express an action, a condition, or a state of being. The two main kinds of verbs are are action verbs, and linking verbs.
conjunction
A conjunction is a word used to join words or group of words. Different kinds of conjunctions do different jobs.
adjective
An adjective is a word that modifies, or describes, a noun or pronoun. Adjectives answer the questions what kind, which on, how many, or how much.
adverb
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another verb. Adverbs answer the questions how, when, where, or to what extent.
interjection
An interjection is a word or a short phrase used to express emotion, such as wow, or my goodness.
grammar
The set of rules that explain how words are used in a language.
parse
To divide a sentence into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other; to study (something) by looking at its parts closely (to analyze).
