1. English Grammar
PARTS OF
SPEECH
Presented by: Pir Suhail Ahmed

2. EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH
Nouns
Interjections
Pronouns
Conjunctions

3. A word that names
A Person A Place
 A Thing
 An Idea

4. KINDS OF NOUNS
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
boy Ali
girl Zara
Singular Nouns Plural Nouns
boy boys
girl girls
Singular Possessive Plural Possessive
boy’s boys’
girl’s girls’

5. Modifies or describes a noun or pronoun.
Answers these questions:
Did you lose your book?
Is that a sweater?
Just give me minutes.

6. The pronoun is a word used in place of one or more nouns.
It may stand for a person, place, thing, or idea.
Personal Pronouns
Interrogative I, me, mine
Pronouns you, your, yours
who she, her, hers,
Indefinite
whom it, its
Pronouns
what we, us, our, ours
anybody, one, each,
which they, them, their, theirs
either, none,
whose myself, yourself
someone

7. A word that expresses action or
otherwise helps to make a
statement.
Every sentence must have a verb.
Subject Verb Predicate

8. KINDS OF VERBS
Action verbs Linking verbs make a
express mental or statement by connecting
physical action. the subject with a word
that describes or explains it.
He rode the horse to
victory. He has been sick.

9. Modifies or describes a verb, an adjective,
or another adverb.
Answers these questions:
He ran .
She left .
We went .
It was hot!

10. Introduces a noun or pronoun or a phrase or
clause functioning in the sentence as a noun.
The word or word group that the preposition
introduces is its object.

11. COMMON PREPOSITIONS
aboard behind from throughout
about below in to
above beneath into toward
across beside like under
after between of underneath
against beyond off until
along by on up
among down over upon
around during past with
at except since within
before for through without

12. A word that joins words or groups of words.
either/or
so

13. An exclamatory word that expresses emotion.

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