Parts of Speech

To be a good writer, you do need to know the fundamentals.  A basic understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs is crucial for making those WORDS we talked about more specific, more alive, more vivid.

* Noun (A noun is the name of a person, place, thing or idea.)
* Verb (A verb is a word that does an action, shows a state of being, links 2 words together, or helps another word.)  CREATIVE WRITERS TRY TO USE AS MANY ACTION VERBS AS POSSIBLE SO THAT YOU CAN VISUALIZE THEM!!
* Adjective: (a word that describes a noun or another adjective.)* Adverb: (an adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Words ending in LY are adverbs.)

EXERCISE:


In your journal, come up with as many nouns as you can that start with the letter "W."
Come up with as many verbs that start with the letter "M"
Come up with as many adjectives that start with the letter "J"
Come up with as many adverbs as the letter "L"


For fun:  try to make a fun sentence out of the words you came up with!


SOURCE: http://smallworldathome.blogspot.com/2009/01/smallworlds-wordsmithery-good-words.html