Parts+of+Speech

**Nouns **    are the names of persons, places, and things. They function as subjects of sentences, direct objects, predicate nouns, and objects of prepositions. (See more at [| Sentence Structure.]and at [|nouns)] **Pronouns   **   are words that substitute for a nouns. (See more at [|pronouns], [| pronoun agreement], [| pronoun reference], [| indefinite pronouns], and [|pronoun case)] **Verbs** are the engines that power sentences. It shows action or state of being. (See more at [|verbs] and at [| Sentence Structure.)] **Adjectives** modify or describe nouns. (See more at [|modifiers.)] **Adverbs** modify or describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. (See more at [| modifiers.)] <span style="color: rgb(241, 34, 34);">**Prepositions** introduce prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases modify nouns and verbs. (See [|prepositions], [| Sentence Structure], and [|modifiers.)] <span style="color: rgb(241, 34, 34);">**Conjunctions** are words like "and," "but," and "so". They join sentence parts together. (See more at [|conjunctions]) <span style="color: rgb(241, 34, 34);">**Interjections** show emotion. They are not structurally related to the rest of the sentence. (See more at [|interjections])