The Eight Parts of Speech With Baseball Evan Gilman and Clayton Wilms

The Noun Definition: The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive. Little roller up along first, behind the bag, and it gets through Buckner! The umpire has found some cork in Sosa’s broken bat!

The Pronoun Definition: The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context. I can’t believe I am holding this legendary ball in my own hands. He went all out to make that diving catch.

The Verb Definition: The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages. I can’t believe he climbed to the top of the wall and caught that ball. He really knows how to hit.

The Adverb Definition: The part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb. He had to react very quickly to catch that ball. He looked back at the umpire immediately.

The Adjective Definition: The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase. He ran fast and slid far to catch the baseball. His steady head and quick bat earned him a hit.

The Preposition Definition: A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and in regard to. He blew the call at first base! Ripken crushed the ball to left field.

The Conjunction Definition: The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. He caught the ball and gunned out the base runner. He could have just tagged third base, but he threw it to first instead.

The Interjection Definition: The part of speech that usually expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. Yes! That ball is out of here! What! He was definitely safe!