Definitions of parts of speech

nouns – words that name people, places, things, and ideas
ex. man, museum, leash, love
verbs – words that express an action or state of being
ex. jump, hide, seem, is, are
adjectives – describing words; words that modify nouns or pronouns
ex. pretty, brown, lazy, awesome adverbs – words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
ex. softly, always, very, too
prepositions – words that show a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence
ex. about, at, before, in, under conjunctions – words that join other words or groups of words
ex. and, but, or, so, yet
interjections – words used to express emotion
ex. Wow! Ouch! Hooray!