Flowchart for Identifying Parts of Speech



Flowchart for Identifying Parts of Speech

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Is it a person, place, thing, or idea?

Is it a word like

he, she, it, those

that stands in for another word?

Verb

Noun

Is it an action? Is it something you can do?

Does it describe a person, place, thing, or idea? (noun)

Does it describe or modify another word?

Pronoun

Adjective

Does it describe an action or another describing word? (verb, adjective, or adverb)

Adverb

Is it an expression of emotion, like oh, yikes!, well, or ah?

Interjection

Does it describe the position of a noun or its relationship to another word? Is it a word like in, around, to, inside?

NO

YES

YES

NO

YES

NO

NO

YES

YES

NO

YES

YES

NO

YES

Preposition

NO

Does it connect two ideas with a FANBOYS word or a pair like either/or, both/and, not only/but also?

YES

Conjunction

NO

Game over!

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