to read and see more. You can visit each page and try each activity as often as you want for practice.SPC-ELL: Identifying Parts of Speech
Self-Paced Collection of English Language Lessons
Make sure you "allow" blocked content and turn your speakers on to use this SoftChalk lesson. Watch the videos, listen to the recordings, and read the explanations on each page. Put your mouse over the bold words to read and see more. You can visit each page and try each activity as often as you want for practice.
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At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
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Click the play arrow to listen as you read along.
In the video, you heard these words as examples of the different parts of speech.
1. Verbs - have, help, do, run, walk, play, sing
2. Noun - girl, man, table, car
3. Adjectives - good, bad, red, blue, exciting
4. Adverbs - fast, quickly, very, beautifully
5. Pronouns - I, he, him, her, we
6. Prepositions - after, on, at, to
7. Conjunctions - and, but, when
8. Interjections - ouch, hi, well
Check your understanding: Try the "Drag N Drop" Activity to practice identifying the different parts of speech. (Interjections are not included in this activity.)
Click the play arrow to listen.
Verbs are words that show action, condition, or state. Every sentence must have a verb.
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Types of Verbs: |
Action Verbs |
Linking Verbs |
Auxiliary Verbs |
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Examples: |
work, study, eat, copy, read, play, drive, evaluate, examine, determine, analyze |
appear, become, feel, get, look, seem, smell, stay, taste, be |
be, do, have, can, could, should, must, may, would, will, etc. (all modals) |
Example sentences:
Check your understanding: Try this "Quiz" Activity to practice identifying verbs in sentences. Remember, some verbs consist of more than one word.
Click the play arrow to listen.
Nouns are words for people, places, things, or ideas.
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Singular |
Plural |
Non-Count |
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boy, dog, man, school, neighborhood, mouse, box, baby, tooth |
boys, dogs, men, schools, neighborhoods, mice, boxes, babies, teeth |
water, class, audience, team, coffee, sugar, furniture, jewelry, junk, news, tennis, rice, hair, homework, collection |
Nouns are often the subject of a sentence; however, they can also function as a direct or indirect object.
Example sentences:
Check your understanding: Try this "Quiz" Activity to practice identifying subjects and objects in a sentence.
Click the play arrow to listen.
Adjectives are words that describe a noun or a pronoun.
Example Sentences:
Check your understanding: Practice identifying adjectives. There are 8 adjectives in the following short paragraph. Can you find them? After you read the paragraph, click on the "Sorting Activity."
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Behind my childhood home, there is a large piece of land that is surrounded by banana trees. Their green leaves are so thick that sunlight cannot pass through. During the rainy season, the garden produces a very strange melody when the raindrops fall on the leaves. Now, whenever I hear raindrops on the roof of my apartment in the city, I remember the beautiful garden of my childhood. (Adapted from Introduction to Academic Writing, Third Edition. Oshima & Hogue, 2007) |
Adjectives have two possible locations in an English sentence:
Check your understanding: Try this "Quiz" Activity to practice putting adjectives in the correct place in a sentence.
Click the play arrow to listen.
Adverbs are words that describe verbs, adjectives, or another adverb.
Example Sentences:
Notice that adverbs can be located in different places in English sentences:
Check your understanding: Try this "Quiz" Activity to practice identifying adverbs in sentences.
Click the play arrow to listen.
Pronouns are words that replace nouns.
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Type of Pronoun: |
Subject Pronoun |
Object Pronoun |
Possessive Pronoun |
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Singular |
I You He, she it |
Me You Him, her, it |
Mine Yours His, hers, its |
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Plural |
We You They |
Us You Them |
Ours Yours Theirs |
Example sentences:
Check your understanding: Try this Quiz Group to practice with prounouns. (Make sure you click "Check Answers" when you finish all the questions.)
Prepositions are words that show relationships between nouns and the rest of the sentence. They give us information about time, location, or direction.
Watch the video to learn about prepositions.
Click the play arrow to listen.
My job is very stressful and difficult. I need a vacation! I want to go on a long vacation next month, but I can only take four days off. I'm thinking about going to New York or Miami. If I go to New York, I would need an expensive plane ticket, so I think I'll go to Miami instead. I can drive there, so it would be cheaper. I'll just take I-4 across Florida, and then drive down the east coast toward Miami. I won't even bring my cell phone or computer on my vacation. I'm very excited!
Conjunctions connect words or phrases.
First, watch this funny video to see what the world would be like without conjunctions!
Conjunctions make communication a lot easier!
Click the play arrow to listen.
My job is very stressful and difficult. I need a vacation! I want to go on a long vacation next month, but I can only take four days off. I'm thinking about going to New York or Miami. If I go to New York, I would need an expensive plane ticket, so I think I'll go to Miami instead. I can drive there, so it would be cheaper. I'll just take I-4 across Florida, and then drive down the east coast toward Miami. I won't even bring my cell phone or computer on my vacation. I'm very excited!
The next video is a little more advanced. It discusses coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS), subordinating conjunctions, and correlative conjunctions.
Check your understanding. Try this "Sorting" Activity to see how many parts of speech you can correctly identify.
Important - if you want to submit your scores, click Print Score Summary and/or Email Score according to your teacher's instructions. If you see a Finish button on the last page, click on it to submit your scores directly to your teacher (not all students will see the "Finish" button).