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April 28, 2012

4th Grade Language Study Guide- Parts of Speech


4th Grade Language Study Guide: Parts of Speech 

NOUN – names a person, place, thing, or idea
  • Examples: Hamilton, teacher, desk, apple, focus, happiness, humility, love, light, school, North Peachtree Academy
  • Example:                                                                                       
VERB – shows action, or state of being 
  • Examples: run, ran, went, is, was, skip, laugh
  • Example                                                                                      
PRONOUN – takes the place of a noun (replaces a noun)
  • Examples: he, she, it, we, they, their, theirs, ours
  • Example                                                                                    
ADJECTIVE – describes nouns and pronouns 
  • Examples: pink, the, happy, five, short, few
  •  An adj. answers: Which one? What kind? How many? How much? Whose?
  • Example                                                                                   
  • Special Adjectives: a, an, and the are always adjectives – they are called articles
  • Example                                                                                   
    Writing Comparisons – adding –er or -est

  • if the adjective ends with a short vowel sound before the final consonant, then double the final consonant before adding –er or –est
  • Example                                                                                   
  • if the adjective ends in e, drop the final e before adding –er or -est
  • Whenever you use –er or –est, make sure you state what you are comparing.
  • Example                                                                                   
ADVERB – describes verbs, adjectives, and adverbs 
  • Examples: happily, gladly, slowly, always
  • An adverb answersWhere? When? How often? To what extent? How?
  • An adverb often ends in –ly
  • Example                                                                                   
PREPOSITION – shows relationship 
  • Examples: in, toward, above, below, under, at, inside
  • learn the list of common prepositions
  • Example: The bird flew in her cage.
  • Example                                                                                   
OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION – the noun after the preposition
  • Example: The bird flew in her cage.
  • Example                                                                                   
CONJUNCTION: connecting or joining words
  • joins words or groups of words
  • Examples: and, but, or, nor, yet, for
  • Example                                                                                   
INTERJECTION – shows strong or sudden feeling
  • Examples: ouch, my, wow, oh
  • Example AOuch! That bee stung me!
  • Example B: My, look how well you did!
  • Example