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Parts of Speech Terms
Practice defining and see examples of parts of speech needed to master sixth grade standards
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| Noun | A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, or thing |
| Proper Noun | A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing and always begins with a capital letter |
| Common Noun | A common noun names a non specific person, place, or thing and is not capitalized |
| Pronoun | A pronoun is a word used in place of a (for) noun |
| Personal Pronoun | A personal pronoun refers to the person speaking, being spoken to, or being spoken about |
| Personal Pronoun examples: | I, my, mine, me, you, your, he, his, him, she, her, it, they, their, them |
| Indefinite Pronoun | An indefinite pronoun in an unidentifiable person or thing |
| Indefinite Pronoun examples: | all, any, anyone, both, either, many, each, nobody, none, some, something, everything |
| Demonstrative Pronouns | A demonstrative pronoun points to a person or thing |
| Demonstrative Pronoun examples: | this, that, these, those |
| Interrogative Pronoun | An interrogative pronoun asks question |
| Interrogative Pronoun examples: | who, whose, whom, which, what |
| Person | person refers to the speaker, the person spoken to, or the person spoken about |
| 1st person examples | I, my, mine, me, we, ours, us |
| 2nd person examples | you, your, yours |
| 3rd person examples | he, his, him, she, her, it, its, they, their, them |
| Antecedent | The antecedent is the original noun that a pronoun later replaces |
| Coordinating Conjunctions | Joins to independent clauses |
| Coordinating Conjunction examples: | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
| Subordinating Conjunctions | Joins a dependent and independent clause |
| Subordinating Conjunction examples: | whether, when, if, though, even if, because, until, so that |
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