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1. A verb is a word indicating an action, an event or a state. e.g.: write, happen, need, want, stay

2. A noun is a word used to name or identify things, people, places or ideas. e.g.: book, child, city, love, life, time

3. A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, in order to avoid repeating the noun. e.g.: I, me, she, her, we, us 4. An adjective is a word indicating a quality of a noun (a person, a thing, a place an idea). Notice that the words my, your, his, her, its, our, your and their are possessive adjectives! e.g.: small, fast, second, important

5. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb. It adds more information about the circumstances of an action. e.g.: there, yesterday, nicely

6. A preposition is a word or a group of words used to connect words showing ideas of position, time, origin, direction, purpose or method. e.g.: in, on, at, from, in front of, behind, under, with, above below, over, among, between, to, for

7. An article is used before a noun. e.g.: a, an, the Remember: a /an are only used before singular nouns, but the can be used before singular or plural nouns.

Identify to what part of speech the underlined words belong to: The book you received is on the table. I watched an interesting movie last night. Yum! Yum! This cake is so good! She always tells the truth. Who asked you to come here? Ill go home as soon as I finish my work. We gave him the present. He bought an expensive car. The students came to school early.

Go over the lyrics for the song Disappear, by Beyonc Knowles and identify the parts of speech underlined.

If I begged and if I cried would it change the sky tonight? Will it give me sunlight? Should I wait for you to call? Is there any hope at all? Are you drifting by?
cried: ___________________________ it: ____________________________

Go over the sentences below and identify the underlined part of speech. Then write the sentence number which the: ___________________________ corresponds to each of the following pictures.

tonight: ________________________ sunlight: _______________________ for: ___________________________

hope: __________________________ by: ____________________________

Click here to listen to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRzl FPyd_RA

1. In autumn, children play in the park with the fallen leaves. 2. My father worked on his project till very late last night. 3. Mother wants to cook something delicious for dinner. 4. Sue ordered a drink while waiting for me at the caf. 5. I need to send this package by air as soon as possible! 6. The reporter tried to get a statement from the governor. 7. Mark got a job as a cook in an Irish restaurant. 8. Bob drinks a lot of lemonade when its hot outside. 9. Tim played Zorro really well in the school play. 10. Brads got an interesting hobby. He makes replicas of famous ships. 11. Mary has a lot of paper work to do at the office. 12. Tim presses the grapes with his bare feet to make wine.

1. ___________________; __________________ 2. ___________________; __________________ 3. ___________________; __________________ 4. ___________________; __________________ 5. ___________________; __________________ 6. ___________________; __________________ 7. ___________________; __________________ 8. ___________________; __________________ 9. ___________________; __________________ 10. __________________; __________________ 11. __________________; __________________ 12. __________________; __________________

Identify to what part of speech the underlined words belong to: The book you received is on the table. I watched an interesting movie last night. Yum! Yum! This cake is so good! She always tells the truth. Who asked you to come here? Ill go home as soon as I finish my work. We gave him the present. He bought an expensive car. The students came to school early. preposition noun adjective adverb (frequency) adverb (place) noun pronoun article adverb (time)

Go over the lyrics for the song Disappear, by Beyonc Knowles and identify the parts of speech underlined.

If I begged and if I cried would it change the sky tonight? Will it give me sunlight? Should I wait for you to call? Is there any hope at all? Are you drifting by?
cried: verb it: pronoun the: article tonight: adverb (time) sunlight: noun for: preposition hope: noun by: preposition

Click here to listen to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRzl FPyd_RA

1. preposition ; noun 2. possessive adjective ; adverb 3. noun ; adjective 4. noun ; noun 5. verb ; preposition 6. preposition ; noun

9 4 2

3 10 5

6 1 7

11 8 12

7. article ; adjective 8. verb ; adjective 9. adverb (manner) ; article 10. adjective ; adjective 11. noun ; preposition 12. noun ; possessive adjective