The Parts of Speech

There are seven basic parts of speech:

  1. Noun: names a person, place, thing, or idea

    Jaime dances.

  2. Pronoun: replaces a noun in a sentence. He, she, it, we, and they are pronouns.

    She dances.

  3. Verb: tells what action the subject does or links a subject to another word that describes it.
    Jaime dances. [The verb dances is what the subject, Jaime, does.]
    She is a dancer. [The verb is links the subject, Jaime, to a word that describes her, dancer.]
  4. Adjective: describes a noun or a pronoun
    image [The adjective thin describes the noun Jaime.]
    image [The adjective graceful describes the pronoun She.]
  5. Adverb: describes an adjective, a verb, or another adverb. Adverbs often end in -ly.
    image [The adverb extremely describes the adjective graceful.]
    image [The adverb often describes the verb practices.]
    image [The adverb quite describes another adverb, beautifully.]
  6. Preposition: connects a noun, pronoun, or verb with information about it. Across, around, at, in, of, on, and out are prepositions (there are many others).
    image [The preposition at connects the verb practices with the noun studio.]
  7. Conjunction: connects words to each other. An easy way to remember the seven common conjunctions is to connect them in your mind to FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

    The studio is expensive but good.