Identifying Parts Of Speech

Summary
Introduction to identifying parts of speech.

Objectives
• Students will be able to state the definition of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

• Students will be able to recognize and distinguish nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs from each other.

• Students will be able to use nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs correctly in sentences.

Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Identifying Parts Of Speech Procedures

1. Read lesson and discuss examples.
2. Allow students time to complete the exercises.
3. Discuss answers to exercises.

Identifying Parts Of Speech

Once you have learned about nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, you will be able to identify them in sentences and tell them apart from each other. Some words can be used as more than one part of speech. This is particularly true of words that can be both nouns and verbs. Pay attention to how a word is used in a sentence before you decide if it is a noun, verb, adverb or adjective.
For example, in the sentence below, book is used as a verb.

Will you book us a court for 3 pm?

But in the following sentence, book is a noun.

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