Part of Speech:
Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
part of speech | function or "job" | example words | example sentences |
action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | EnglishClub is a web site. I likeEnglishClub. | |
thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. | |
describes a noun | a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I likebig dogs. | |
describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eats quickly. When he is veryhungry, he eats reallyquickly. | |
replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. | |
links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to school onMonday. | |
joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats anddogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. | |
short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know. |
* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub, we use the traditional categorization of 8 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, have, must)
- Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives
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