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 answers: Where? 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 A: Ouch! That bee stung me!
• Example B: My, look how well you did!
• Example: