This document defines and provides examples of the main parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Nouns name people, places, things, and ideas. Pronouns replace nouns. Verbs express actions and states of being. Adjectives describe nouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Prepositions link nouns to other words. Conjunctions connect words and clauses. Interjections convey emotion.
2. Part of Speech
is a linguistic category of words, which is generally
defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour
of the lexical item in question.
3. NOUN
A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place,
thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first
words which small children learn.
4. Pronoun
A pronoun can replace a noun or another pronoun.
You use pronouns like "he," "which," "none," and "you"
to make your sentences less cumbersome and less
repetitive.
5. Verb
The verb is perhaps the most important part of the
sentence. A verb or compound verb asserts something
about the subject of the sentence and express actions,
events, or states of being.
6. Adjective
An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun by
describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An
adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun
which it modifies.
7. Adverb
An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another
adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates
manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers
questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how
much".
8. Preposition
A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to
other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the
preposition introduces is called the object of the
preposition.
