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Parts of Speech Color Coding

Published on Dec 29, 2015

An explanation of why the parts of speech are coded the colors that they are

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Understanding the Parts of Speech
Color Code

Nouns, pronouns, adjectives

They are in the same color family because they are all related
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VERBS ARE BLUE
They are a TOTALLY different color family from nouns, adjectives, and pronouns because they do
TOTALLY different things

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Adverbs are purple

They describe RED adjectives, BLUE verbs, and PURPLE adverbs
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Prepositions, interjections, conjunctions

Earthy/"dirt" colors because they do the work in a sentence
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