Parts of Speech Quick Review

A person, place, thing, or idea

Common (general) or proper (specific)

What kind? (blue, giant, prickly, hilarious)

Whose? (the dog's, Frank's)

How many? (14, a lot, none, all)

An action (travel, smell, remember, jump)

A state of being (is, am, are, was, were, been, being)

*Tells tense (time)

How (quickly, quietly, clumsily, happily)

Where (there, here)

When (later, sometimes, always, never, soon)

To what degree (really, very, so)

Location (on, in, under, above, near)

Direction (through, to, toward)

Mode (for, of, about, with, from)

Coordinating: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So (FANBOYS)

Subordinating: Because, Although, Since, Once, If, Though