1.     Common Nouns are general and do not refer to a specific person, location or object.  Examples:  man, city, tonight, honesty, happiness

2.     Proper Nouns are capitalized and refer to a particular person, place or thing.  Examples:  Judy, Pepsi Arena, June

3.     A Pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.  Examples:  nominative case:  she, we; objective case: me, him; possessive case:  its, their 

4.     Verbs are words that express action or a state of being.  They also indicate the time of action or state of being.  A verb has different forms depending on its number(is the verb singular or plural), person(is the verb 1st person, 2nd person or 3rd person), voice, tense(is the verb past, present or future), and mood.

5.     An adverb is a word that describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.  An adverb tells how, when, where, why, how often, and how much.  Examples:  The ball rolled slowly around the rim.  Soccer scores are reported daily in the newspaper.  The test was much easier that I expected. 

6.     An  adjective is a word that describes or modifies nouns and pronouns.  Adjectives describe color, shape, size, number and condition of nouns or pronouns.  Adjectives have 3 forms:  Positive; it describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anything else.  Example:  My pie is good.     Comparative form compares two things.  Example:  Susie's pie is better than mine. Superlative form compares three or more things.  Example:  Mom's pie is the best of all.

7.     A preposition is a word or group of words which shows how a noun or pronoun relates to another word in a sentence.  Examples:  The girl walked into the store.  The horse jumped over the fence.  Their team won the game in spite of several players being injured.

8.     A conjunction is a word that connects individual words or groups of words.  Examples:  and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so.  Additional examples are:  either, neither, nor, not only, but also, both, whether.

9.     An interjection is a word that is used in a sentence to communicate strong emotion or surprise.  Punctuation marks, like an exclamation mark or a comma, are used to separate the interjection from the rest of the sentence.  Examples:  Hooray! We finally saw whales.  Wow, the trip was fantastic!