Lesson 1 Parts of Speech

The Basics

Essential Question

What roles do words play as the building blocks of all sentences?

Grammar in the World

Every day, you share your ideas by arranging many different types of words in order to create phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs.

You may not realize it, but as you speak and write, you follow rules about the types of words, when you can use them, and how they are used. Identifying parts of speech allows you to understand all the ways you can arrange and rearrange words in order to share your message.

What Do I Know?

What do you already know about the parts of speech? Take this quiz to find out.

Building Blocks

Grammar is a complex system and structure of language. The Mizzou Academy Grammar Lab spotlights one skill (or block) at a time, but it’s often helpful to see how a skill works together with other, related blocks to build the language structure as a whole. You may find the following resource topics helpful as context for this lesson:

Learn About Parts of Speech

First, watch the following video to learn more about the parts of speech.

Video: Parts of Speech

Source: Mizzou Academy

Video transcript

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in the English language there are eight