Introduction
Each year since kindergarten you've been learning about the 8 parts of speech. This year I'll be teaching you about adjective & adverb phrases, participles & participial phrases, and gerunds & gerund phrases.
Before we start studying those types of phrases, we need to review the eight parts of speech, because each part of speech is essential to recognizing and understanding the aforementioned grammatical elements. Take a look at the poem on the right for a brief overview of the eight parts of speech. See? Each word plays a role in a sentence. To understand other, more difficult grammar concepts, we need to know the parts of speech first. This is the basis and building block to everything grammar related. By the end of the Web Quest, you will be a Parts of Speech Pro! |
Every name is called a NOUN,
As a field and fountain, street and town; In place of noun the PRONOUN stands As he and she can clap their hands; The ADJECTIVE describes a thing, As magic wand and bridal ring; The VERB means action, something done- To read, to write, to jump, to run; How things are done, the ADVERBS tell, As quickly, slowly, badly, well; The PREPOSITION shows relation, As in the street, or at the station; CONJUNCTIONS join, in many ways, Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase; The INTERJECTION cries out, "Hark! I need an exclamation mark!” Each of these make up THE PARTS OF SPEECH. |