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magic lens 8 parts of speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the mnemonic for the 8 parts of speech | PAPA VINC |
| How many parts of speech are there? | 8 |
| What does papa vinc stand for? | Preposition Adjective Pronoun Adverb Verb Interjection Noun Conjunction |
| What is the definition of a noun? | a person, place, thing, or idea |
| What is the definition of a verb? | an action state of being or shows a relation between two things |
| What is the definition of a preposition? | used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since. |
| What is the definition of an adverb? | modifiers of verbs or clauses, and also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases |
| What is the definition of an adjective? | having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns |
| What is the definition of a pronoun? | a word that takes the place of a noun |
| What is the definition of a conjunction? | connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however. |
| What is the definition of an interjection? | expressing emotion, distinguished by their use in grammatical isolation |