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00:00Dear Tim and Moby, I need to know all the parts of speech.
00:14From Nicholas.
00:15I don't know if we can cover all the parts of speech in one movie, but I think we can
00:19at least show you the basics.
00:22Words help us talk about the world, and we divide them into categories based on what
00:26they do.
00:28A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
00:33We're sitting on a hill.
00:35A hill's a place, and also a thing.
00:38Either way, the word hill is a noun.
00:41Mockingbird.
00:42Mockingbird is a noun, since it's a thing.
00:47I'm a boy.
00:48Boy is a noun.
00:49It's a person.
00:50Me.
00:51A verb is an action.
00:54Fly is a verb.
00:57Throw is a verb.
00:59Moby throws rocks into the lake.
01:03The rock sinks to the bottom.
01:05Sink is also a verb.
01:09Adjectives describe or modify nouns.
01:12Orange would be an adjective to describe Moby's head.
01:15Moby has an orange head.
01:18This lake is big.
01:23Adverbs describe or modify verbs, and sometimes adjectives or adverbs.
01:31Moby stood up quickly.
01:32Quickly is the adverb here, telling us how fast Moby stood up.
01:38Moby cries very loudly.
01:40Here, the adverb loudly tells us how Moby cries, and the adverb very modifies loudly,
01:47intensifying the effect.
01:50Oh.
01:53Here's a sentence that uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
02:00Tim and Moby saw a giant, hungry monster and quickly ran home.
02:05I guess we should actually do that, huh?