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Part of speech
A noun is a naming word. It names a person, an animal, a place or a thing: teacher, giraffe, kitchen, teapot.
Quick test: Can you put “the” or “a” in front of it? The teapot, a giraffe: yes, so they are nouns.
In your own story template, write [noun].
Is the highlighted word a noun, a verb, an adjective or an adverb? Look at the job it does in the sentence.
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The robot whistles when it is happy.
What kind of word is whistles in this sentence?
Take the sentence “The sleepy walrus snored loudly.” Each word has a job:
A word’s job can change from sentence to sentence. “Dance” is a verb in “Let’s dance” and a noun in “The dance was fun”. That is why the quiz above always shows the word inside a sentence.
Some prompts, like color, animal, food or place, are not parts of speech at all. They ask for a kind of thing, and the answer is usually a noun (an animal, a food) or sometimes an adjective (a color). They are there to make stories funnier, not harder.
Helping a child? Use the quick test on each card: put “the” in front of a noun, “I can” in front of a verb, “very” in front of an adjective. Then let them choose the silliest example they can think of.
An adjective describes a thing (a slow turtle). An adverb describes an action, telling you how, when or where it happens (the turtle walked slowly). Many adverbs end in -ly, but not all: fast, soon and outside are adverbs too.
Yes. Names are proper nouns: they name one particular person, place or thing, so they start with a capital letter.
Take any action word and add -ing: jump becomes jumping, hop becomes hopping. It fits the gap in “I am ___ right now”.