Parts of Speech
English is made up of many different types of words. We refer to these types of words as parts of speech. Some words can be used in more than one way depending on the sentence they are in.
The main parts of speech are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions.
Look at the chart below to understand and see some examples of the different parts of speech.
10 PARTS OF SPEECH:
- NOUN – Visit the noun page for more informaiton.
A word used to name a person, place, or thing.
Examples: car, tree, John, New York, dog, table.
- PRONOUN – Visit the pronoun page for more information.
A word that takes the place of a noun.
Examples: I, you, he, it, we, them, mine, theirs
- ADJECTIVE – Visit the adjectives page for more information.
A word used to describe a noun or a pronoun.
Examples: big, red, new, heavy, colorful, noisy
- VERB – Visit the verb page for more information.
A word that describes an action or a state of being.
Examples: be, have, take, run, do, touch, love
- ADVERB – Visit the adverb page for more information.
A word that describes or adds information to a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Examples: quickly, too, almost, very, soon, quietly.
- PREPOSITION – Visit the preposition page for more information.
A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and an another word in the clause or sentence.
Examples: in, on, at, with, before, into.
- ARTICLE – Visit the article page for more information.
A word used before a noun to refer to a specific person or thing, or someone or something in general.
Examples: a, an, the
- DETERMINER – Visit the determiner page for more information.
A word used before a noun to indicate something specific or of a particular type.
Examples: those, many, his, my, much
- CONJUNCTION – Visit the conjunction page for more information.
A word used to link words and phrases.
Examples: and, but, yet, or, because, neither, nor
- INTERJECTION – Visit the interjection page for more information.
A word that usually appears alone and expresses some emotion.
Examples: Hello, Ahem, Oh!, Ah!, Excuse me, HELP! Oops!
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