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2. 2 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Person, Place, Thing, or Concept I worked on school work this week. Work and week are the nouns in this sentence. It is tempting to label school a noun, but in this sentence, school is not a thing but description for a type of work.

3. 3 Previous SlideNext Slide Examples: The movie begins with loud explosion. The woman on the poster was looking at the faces of the people she saw. Movie is a thing as is explosion. Both are the nouns in this first sentence Woman, poster, faces and people are all nouns in this sentence.

4. 4 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Stand-in for a Person, Place, Thing, or Concept: I, He/ She/ It, They, We, You Wendy (noun) worked on school work this week. She (pronoun) worked on school work this week. In the second sentence, she has replaced Wendy. She stands in for Wendy in the second sentence. In the first sentence, Wendy is a noun.

5. 5 Previous SlideNext Slide Examples: I bought his car at an auction. That is their only choice because he has them over a barrel. In the second sentence, their is used to stand in for the people who have the choice. Them again refers to those same people, and him refers to whoever is giving them the choice. In the first sentence, I is a pronoun that stands in for whomever is speaking. His is a stand in for whomever owns the car.

6. 6 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Modifies or describes a noun Wendy worked on school (adjective) work this (adjective) week. School tells us what kind of work and this tells us which week. Both of these are adjectives because they give us the type of noun. They describe the noun.

7. 7 Previous SlideNext Slide Examples The biggest television in the store was left on. Tennis courts are good.

8. 8 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Action Can might must may should will are all helping verbs. I was very happy when I woke up this morning.

9. 9 Previous SlideNext Slide Examples: I bought a car for my brother. He drove it to work.

10. 10 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Describe the kind of action or the way an action was performed or modifies an adjective. Usually words that end in –ly are adverbs. Not, never are adverbs I worked quickly the whole weekend.

11. 11 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Connector Words For And Nor But Or Yet So (FANBOYS) However Nevertheless Although If you go to the movies, buy some popcorn because that stuff is great. My weekend was very entertaining, and I worked quickly the whole weekend. My weekend was very entertaining, for I worked quickly the whole weekend.

12. 12 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Location words In on over under Location in time: before after during Location of meaning: of with Before the movie, we should go to the restaurant at the mall.

13. 13 Previous SlideNext Slide Definition: Exclamations! Wow Swear words Wow! That is a nasty cut.

14. 14 Previous SlideNext Slide Example of all 8 parts of speech in a sentence: The water in the water hose watered the lawn because it needed watering. Adj. Prep. Noun Adj. Verb Conj. Pronoun

15. 15 Previous SlideNext Slide To further master this concept, click below for a quiz: 8 Parts of Speech Quiz