EF2/3 Parts of Speech

Nouns
- person
father mother friend
John Sarah
colleague = coworker

- place
Vancouver
Japan
park
school
Fraser Street
Kensington Community Centre
kitchen

- thing
chair, phone, house, guitar

- idea
religion, future, freedom, democracy, love
education


Verbs -action words, states of being (are, is)

actions- run, walk, jump, watch, dance
state of being - are/is "I am tired today."


Adjectives - describe nouns
beautiful, ugly, cold, warm, heavy, light, big, small, wonderful, delicious, strange

A cold day

Adverbs - describe verbs
usually "ly" words

quickly, slowly, carefully, always, well

She speaks French very well.

unsafely, dangerously

He drives his car dangerously.

Pronouns

I, you, it, he,she, we, they,

Prepositions - short words, show place or directions

on, in, over, at, to, for, beneath, below, under, up, down, above, between, beside, behind
across from

***Prepositions are VERY important in English.***

I live on Fraser Street.
I live in Fraser Street. XXX

I live on Vancouver. XXX

I live in Vancouver.

I live at 555 Happy Street.

I live on Happy Street.

I live in Canada.

I live on the Earth.
Worms live in the ground.

I live in a basement.
She lives in a house.

Interjections- one word sentences

Wow.
Um.
Oh.
Yeah!
Hey!
Uh huh.
Uh oh.
OK.
Well.