Sports Commands And Signals

noun a word used to express an action, state, feeling, or idea

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse

preposition a word used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, location, or time

article a word that is used with a noun to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun

• The commander will give the word for the troops to advance.
• Just let me know when to start, I'll wait for you to give the word.
• I'll wait for the cue, just give the word and I'll make my move.
• After much deliberation, she finally decided to give the word on the new project.