1. Kaitlin L. Blundy

2.  A person, place, thing, or idea
 Answers the question who or what
 Can be a real thing or an abstract idea
 Example 1: The girl ate the apple.
 Example 2: The man wanted to find love.

3.  Nouns can also be proper. In this case, they
should be capitalized.
 Example 1: My favorite month is May.
 Example 2: My friend’s name is Bob.

4.  Takes the place of a noun
 Example 1: Mary went to the mall, or she
went to the mall.
 Example 2: Take the box out to the garage, or
take it out to the garage.

5.  Describesa noun or pronoun
 Can appear before or after nouns
 Example 1: The flower is yellow.
 Example 2: I live in the tall, white house.

6.  Shows action or a state of being
 What you do
 Example 1: Stephanie jumped into the
swimming pool. (action)
 Example 2: Zack was in class. (being)

7.  Likeadjectives describe nouns, adverbs
describe verbs (or adjectives)
 Many end in –ly
 Answer the questions how, when, why, and
where
 Example: Jack jumped gracefully over the
candlestick.

8.  Show direction or space
 Describe verbs, nouns, or adjectives
 Anywhere you can put a duck
 Examples: under, above, around, below,
behind, in, near, under, between, etc.
 Example: The family drove over the bridge.

9.  Joins two sentences together with the help of
a comma (,)
 FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
 Example 1: The girls wanted to go to the mall,
but the boys did not.
 Example 2: Sarah was hungry, so she made a
bowl of soup.

10.  Precede a noun or noun phrase
 A, an, the
 Example 1: She covered herself with the
blanket.
 Example 2: Danny refused to eat an
artichoke, but he ate five hotdogs.

11.  Short
exclamation
 Sometimes inserted into a sentence
 Examples: Ouch!, hey!, wow!
 Example: Hey! You dropped your wallet!

12. 1. We went to school on
Monday.
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13.  We: Pronoun
 Went: Verb
 To: Preposition
 School: Noun
 On: Preposition
 Monday: Proper Noun

14. 2. He bought the blue sweater
for his mom.
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15.  He: Pronoun
 Bought: Verb
 The: Article
 Blue: Adjective
 Sweater: Noun
 For: Preposition
 His: Pronoun
 Mom: Noun

16.  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource
/730/1/: Purdue Online Writing Lab Parts of
Speech Overview
 http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts
-of-speech_1.htm: English Club Parts of
Speech Table