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16 cards — the eight parts of speech school and exam questions ask for, one definition card and one identify-the-word card each. Older traditional grammars counted nine, treating the article as its own part of speech; modern descriptive grammar instead folds articles into a determiner class. The deck teaches the eight that both routes agree on, and asks nothing about articles.
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- Which part of speech names a person, place, thing, idea or quality?
- Noun — teacher, harbour, kettle, courage.
- Part of speech of 'harbour' in: The harbour froze overnight.
- Noun — it names a thing, and here it is the subject of the sentence.
- Which part of speech stands in for a noun or a noun phrase?
- Pronoun — I, you, she, it, they, who, nobody.
- Part of speech of 'they' in: The gulls left because they were cold.
- Pronoun — it stands in for the noun phrase 'the gulls'.
- Which part of speech expresses an action or a state of being?
- Verb — jump, bake, think, seem, is, was.
- Part of speech of 'froze' in: The harbour froze overnight.
- Verb — it says what the subject did.
- Which part of speech modifies a noun or a pronoun?
- Adjective — frosty, sturdy, quiet, green.
- Part of speech of 'frosty' in: A frosty wind rose at dawn.
- Adjective — it modifies the noun 'wind'.
- Which part of speech modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb?
- Adverb — quickly, very, yesterday, rather.
- Part of speech of 'quickly' in: The tide rose quickly.
- Adverb — it modifies the verb 'rose', telling how.
- Which part of speech shows how a noun or pronoun relates to another word?
- Preposition — under, before, with, across, of.
- Part of speech of 'under' in: The cat slept under the bench.
- Preposition — it links 'the bench' to 'slept', showing where.
- Which part of speech joins words, phrases or clauses?
- Conjunction — and, but, or, because, although.
- Part of speech of 'because' in: We stayed in because it rained.
- Conjunction — it joins the two clauses.
- Which part of speech is an exclamation with no grammatical link to the rest?
- Interjection — Ouch! Hooray! Oh no.
- Part of speech of 'Ouch' in: Ouch, that stings!
- Interjection — it conveys feeling and is not tied to the sentence's grammar.
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- Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.
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