The Foundation Five: Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, and Verbs

Summary
A review lesson about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs.

Objectives
• to review the concept of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs;

• to provide brief definitions and explanations of each part of speech.

• to provide review questions to test knowledge and understanding.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade

Excerpt
The eight parts of speech are the bricks we use to build a sentence. Without these handy words, we would have no language or books. We need them to make sense of our world and to have something to say about it. There are five main parts of speech:

1. Nouns are words that name any person, place, or thing. Just about any name you can think of is a noun! Words like child, garden, ice cream, whale, and dreams are all nouns. There are more nouns in the English language than any other word.

Common nouns are nouns that could be about anyone or anything.
? road and president are common nouns.
Proper nouns name a specific person or place.
? Sunset Boulevard and George Washington are proper nouns.
Concrete nouns are names for nouns you can touch, taste, smell, see or hear.
? chocolate and table are concrete nouns.
Abstract nouns are nouns that name an emotion, idea, feeling or quality.
? friendship and happiness are abstract nouns.

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