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    Parts of Speech

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    This document provides definitions and examples of different parts of speech in English including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. Nouns denote people, places, things, events, ideas, states or qualities. Verbs express actions, happenings, processes or states. Adjectives provide more information about nouns and pronouns. Adverbs add information to verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and clauses. Determiners include articles and possessives. Pronouns replace nouns. Conjunctions join parts of sentences. Prepositions indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns or other words.

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    This document provides definitions and examples of different parts of speech in English including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. Nouns denote people, places, things, events, ideas, states or qualities. Verbs express actions, happenings, processes or states. Adjectives provide more information about nouns and pronouns. Adverbs add information to verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and clauses. Determiners include articles and possessives. Pronouns replace nouns. Conjunctions join parts of sentences. Prepositions indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns or other words.

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    This document provides definitions and examples of different parts of speech in English including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. Nouns denote people, places, things, events, ideas, states or qualities. Verbs express actions, happenings, processes or states. Adjectives provide more information about nouns and pronouns. Adverbs add information to verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and clauses. Determiners include articles and possessives. Pronouns replace nouns. Conjunctions join parts of sentences. Prepositions indicate relationships between nouns, pronouns or other words.

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    NOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES ADVERBS

    A noun is a word which denotes A verb is a word that expresses An adjective gives more Adverbs add information to
    somebody or something: people, an action, a happening, a process information about a noun or verbs, adjectives, other
    places, things, events, ideas, or a state. Every sentence pronoun. adverbs and clauses.
    states or qualities. MUST have a verb in it.
    Proper nouns - David, London, July Main verbs refer to states and actions It can come before the noun - the big Adverbs answer questions such as:
    Common nouns - brother, table, glass walk, kick, is, was, have dog, or it can be linked to it by a verb How? Adverb of manner - quickly
    Collective nouns flock, herd Auxiliary verbs help other verbs to the dog is big. Where? Adv. of place - here
    Countable nouns banana, apple, chair form different tenses be, have, do Comparative adjectives bigger When? Adv. of time - yesterday
    Uncountable nouns milk, information Modal auxiliary verbs show how or Superlative adjectives the biggest Often? Adv. of frequency - always
    Concrete nouns woman, key, river certain or committed we feel about How much? Adv. of degree - very
    Abstract nouns trust, emotion, truth something must, should, can, may How? Adv. of sentence - certainly

    DETERMINERS PRONOUNS CONJUNCTIONS PREPOSITIONS


    Determiners include many of the Pronouns replace a noun or noun Conjunctions are joining words. A preposition tells the
    most frequent English words. A phrase and enable us to avoid They are used to link together relationship between the
    noun usually has to have a repetition. two parts of a sentence. noun, pronoun or other word in
    determiner in front of it. a sentence.
    Definite article the Personal pronoun I, you, he, she, it, Co-ordinating conjunctions join two Prepositions of Movement from,
    Indefinite article a ,an we, they, main clauses to make a compound to, over, into
    Possessives my, his, her, its, our, your, Object pronoun me, you, him, her, us, sentence and, but, or Prepositions of Place under, near,
    their them Subordinating conjunctions join a in
    Demonstratives this, that, those, Possessive pronoun mine, yours, his subordinate clause to a main clause - Preposition of Time on, at, in
    these Reflexive pronoun myself, yourself while, before, after, since, until, if,
    Indefinite pronoun any, everyone because, although

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