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    The Parts of Speech: Part of Speech Function or "Job" Example Words Example Sentences

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    The document summarizes the 8 traditional parts of speech in English: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It provides the function or "job" of each part of speech, example words for each category, and example sentences using different parts of speech. Additionally, it notes that some words can function as more than one part of speech depending on how they are used in a sentence.

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    The Parts of Speech: Part of Speech Function or "Job" Example Words Example Sentences

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    The Parts of Speech

    This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of
    speech.

    part of function or "job" example words example sentences


    speech

    Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, EnglishClub.com is a web site. I
    like, work, sing, like EnglishClub.com.
    can, must

    Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He lives in my


    music, town, house. We live in London.
    London, teacher,
    John

    Adjective describes a noun a/an, the, 69, some, My dog is big. I like big dogs.
    good, big, red, well,
    interesting

    Adverb describes a verb, quickly, silently, My dog eats quickly. When he


    adjective or adverb well, badly, very, is very hungry, he eats really
    really quickly.

    Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
    some

    Preposition links a noun to to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday.
    another word

    Conjunction joins clauses or and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I like
    sentences or words cats and dogs. I like dogs but I
    don't like cats.

    Interjection short exclamation, oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are
    sometimes inserted you? Well, I don't know.
    into a sentence

    * Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub.com,


    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:


    o Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
    o Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)
     Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized
    under Adjectives

    Parts of Speech Examples


    Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech:

    verb noun verb noun verb verb


       
    Stop! John works. John is working.
     
    pronoun verb noun noun verb adjective noun
     
    She loves animals. Animals like kind people.
     
    noun verb noun adverb noun verb adjective noun
     
    Tara speaks English well. Tara speaks good English.
     
    pronoun verb preposition adjective noun adverb

    She ran to the station quickly.


     
    pron. verb adj. noun conjunction pron. verb pron.

    She likes big snakes but I hate them.

    Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech:

    interjection pron. conj. adj. noun verb prep. noun adverb

    Well, she and young John walk to school slowly.


    Words with More than One Job
    Many words in English can have more than one job, or be more than one part of speech. For
    example, "work" can be a verb and a noun; "but" can be a conjunction and a preposition; "well"
    can be an adjective, an adverb and an interjection. In addition, many nouns can act as adjectives.

    To analyze the part of speech, ask yourself: "What job is this word doing in this sentence?"

    In the table below you can see a few examples. Of course, there are more, even for some of the
    words in the table. In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word but has six
    jobs to do:

     verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction!

    word part of speech example


    work noun My work is easy.
    verb I work in London.
    but conjunction John came but 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 We ate in the afternoon.
    noun acting as adjective We had afternoon tea.

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