Study Aids:
Click the Study Aids tab at the bottom of the book to access your Study Aids (usually practice quizzes and flash cards).
Study Pass:
Study Pass is our latest digital product that lets you take notes, highlight important sections of the text using different colors, create "tags" or labels to filter your notes and highlights, and print so you can study offline. Study Pass also includes interactive study aids, such as flash cards and quizzes.
Highlighting and Taking Notes:
If you've purchased the All Access Pass or Study Pass, in the online reader, click and drag your mouse to highlight text. When you do a small button appears – simply click on it! From there, you can select a highlight color, add notes, add tags, or any combination.
Printing:
If you've purchased the All Access Pass, you can print each chapter by clicking on the Downloads tab. If you have Study Pass, click on the print icon within Study View to print out your notes and highlighted sections.
Search:
To search, use the text box at the bottom of the book. Click a search result to be taken to that chapter or section of the book (note you may need to scroll down to get to the result).
View Full Student FAQs
21.1 Parts of Speech
In English, words are used in one of eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, and interjection. This table includes an explanation and examples of each of the eight parts of speech.
| Noun | Person, place, or thing | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | Iowa | book | arm |
| horse | idea | month | |||
| Pronoun | Takes the place of a noun | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | he | it | I |
| her | my | theirs | |||
| Adjective | Describes a noun or pronoun | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | sticky | funny | crazy |
| long | cold | round | |||
| Verb | Shows action or state of being | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | run | jump | felt |
| think | is | gone | |||
| Adverb | Describes a verb, another adverb, or an adjective and tells how, where, or when something is done | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | slowly | easily | very |
| often | heavily | sharply | |||
| Conjunction | Joins words, phrases, and clauses | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | and | because | but |
| since | or | so | |||
| Preposition | First word in a phrase that indicates the relationship of the phrase to other words in the sentence | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | in | on | to |
| after | at | over | |||
| Interjection | A word that shows emotion and is not related to the rest of the sentence | Wow! After the game, silly Mary ate her apples and carrots quickly. | Hey | Wow | Look |
| Super | Oh | Yuck |