An Easy Wayto Learn Parts of Speech
Parts of Speech
What is a Part of speech?
We can categorize English words into 9 basic types called "parts of spoken communication" or "word classes". It's quite important to recognize parts of oral communication. This helps y'all to analyze sentences and understand them. It also helps you to construct good sentences.
- Parts of Speech Table
- Parts of Speech communication Examples
- Parts of Spoken communication Quiz
Parts of Speech communication Tabular array
This is a summary of the 9 parts of voice communication*. You can find more particular if you lot click on each lexical category.
| part of oral communication | office or "chore" | example words | case sentences |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verb | activity or state | (to) exist, have, practise, like, piece of work, sing, can, must | EnglishClub is a spider web site. I like EnglishClub. |
| Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. |
| Adjective | describes a noun | expert, big, red, well, interesting | My dogs are big. I like large dogs. |
| Determiner | limits or "determines" a substantive | a/an, the, ii, some, many | I have 2 dogs and some rabbits. |
| Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | speedily, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. |
| Pronoun | replaces a substantive | I, y'all, he, she, some | Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. |
| Preposition | links a substantive to another give-and-take | to, at, subsequently, on, but | We went to school on Monday. |
| Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I similar dogs only I don't like cats. |
| Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hello!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are yous? Well, I don't know. |
* Some grammar sources traditionally categorize English into viii parts of speech. Others say 10. At EnglishClub, we use the more recent categorization of ix parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:
- Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:
- lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
- auxiliary Verbs (be, take, must)
- Determiners may be treated as adjectives, instead of beingness a separate part of speech.
Parts of Spoken communication Examples
Here are some examples of sentences made with different English parts of speech:
| verb |
|---|
| Stop! |
| noun | verb |
|---|---|
| John | works. |
| noun | verb | verb |
|---|---|---|
| John | is | working. |
| pronoun | verb | substantive |
|---|---|---|
| She | loves | animals. |
| noun | verb | noun | adverb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara | speaks | English | well. |
| substantive | verb | adjective | noun |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara | speaks | expert | English. |
| pronoun | verb | preposition | determiner | substantive | adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| She | ran | to | the | station | quickly. |
| pron. | verb | adj. | substantive | conjunction | pron. | verb | pron. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| She | likes | big | snakes | but | I | hate | them. |
Here is a sentence that contains every part of oral communication:
| interjection | pron. | conj. | det. | adj. | noun | verb | prep. | noun | adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well, | she | and | my | young | John | walk | to | schoolhouse | slowly. |
Words with More Than One Task
Many words in English tin have more than than 1 job, or be more than than ane part of spoken language. For example, "work" tin be a verb and a noun; "but" can exist a conjunction and a preposition; "well" tin be an adjective, an adverb and an interjection. In improver, many nouns tin act as adjectives.
To analyze the office of spoken language, ask yourself: "What task is this word doing in this sentence?"
In the tabular array below you can see a few examples. Of class, at that place are more, even for some of the words in the tabular array. In fact, if you expect in a good dictionary you will meet that the word "but" has six jobs to do:
- verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjunction!
| word | lexical category | example |
|---|---|---|
| work | noun | My work is piece of cake. |
| verb | I work in London. | |
| just | conjunction | John came just Mary didn't come. |
| preposition | Everyone came but Mary. | |
| well | adjective | Are you well? |
| adverb | She speaks well. | |
| interjection | Well! That's expensive! | |
| afternoon | noun | Nosotros ate in the afternoon. |
| noun acting as adjective | We had afternoon tea. |
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Source: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech.htm