EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH
1. NOUN: person, place thing or idea.
2. VERB: Expresses either an action or a state of being.
3. PRONOUN: Word that takes the place of a noun.
4. ADJECTIVE: A word or phrase that modifies a noun or pronoun.
5. ADVERB: A word or phrase that modifies a verb, and adjective or another adverb. HOW (-ly) WHEN (now, yesterday, and then) and WHERE (there, here and away) Some prepositional phrases answer HOW, WHEN AND WHERE, but they are preceded by a preposition.
6. CONJUNCTIONS: words that join words or groups of words. There are three types:
a. Coordinating Conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
b. Correlative Conjunctions: either/or, neither/nor, both/and
c. Subordinating Conjunctions: before, after, during, until, whereas
7. PREPOSITIONS: words that show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
a. Location in space. (in, around, above, below)
b. Time. (during, while, after, at)
c. Logic. (for, of, concerning, despite)
8. INTERJECTIONS: Words designed to convey emotion through some kind of exclamation. (Ouch!, Whoa!)