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A one-page CAPS Grade 4 English poster on parts of speech (Grammar), with the key ideas, key words and a tip to remember.
A noun names a person, a place, an animal or a thing. A proper noun starts with a capital letter. So do the days of the week.
nurse, kitchen, hippo, spoon
Zandile, Pretoria, Thursday
A verb is a doing word or a being word. Every full sentence needs a verb.
The baby crawls. (doing)
She is happy. (being)
An adjective describes a noun. It tells us what kind, what colour or how many.
a cold drink, five green frogs
An adverb tells us more about a verb. It tells us how, when or where something happens. Many adverbs end in ly.
The tortoise crept bravely. (how)
The bus came early. (when)
The cat sat inside. (where)
A pronoun takes the place of a noun: I, you, he, she, it, we, they.
The twins love soccer. They play every day.
A preposition shows where something is. Some prepositions are in, on, under, behind, beside and near.
The ball is behind the door.
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