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    Parts of Speech Table

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    This document provides a summary of the 9 main parts of speech in English: verb, noun, adjective, determiner, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. It gives the function or "job" of each part of speech, example words, 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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    This document provides a summary of the 9 main parts of speech in English: verb, noun, adjective, determiner, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. It gives the function or "job" of each part of speech, example words, 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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    Parts of Speech Table

    This is a summary of the 9 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each
    part of speech.

    part of function or example example sentences


    speech "job" words

    Verb action or (to) be, EnglishClub is a website.


    state have, do, I like EnglishClub.
    like,
    work,
    sing, can,
    must

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


    person work, my house. We live
    music, in London.
    town,
    London,
    teacher,
    John

    Adjective describes a good, big, My dogs are big. I


    noun red, well, like big dogs.
    interestin
    g

    Determiner limits or a/an, the, I have two dogs


    "determines 2, some, and some rabbits.
    " a noun many

    Adverb describes a quickly, My dog eats quickly. When


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

    Pronoun replaces a I, you, Tara is Indian. She is


    noun he, she, beautiful.
    some

    Preposition links a to, at, We


    noun to after, on, went to school on Monday
    another but .
    word

    Conjunction joins and, but, I like dogs and I like


    part of function or example example sentences
    speech "job" words

    clauses or when cats. I like


    sentences cats and dogs. I like
    or words dogs but I don't like
    cats.

    Interjectio short oh!, Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How


    n exclamation ouch!, are you? Well, I don't
    , sometimes hi!, well know.
    inserted
    into a
    sentence

    * Some grammar sources traditionally categorize English into 8 parts of speech. Others


    say 10. At EnglishClub, we use the more recent categorization of 9 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 adjectives, instead of being a separate part of
    speech.

    Parts of Speech 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
    .

    pronou verb noun


    n

    She loves animals


    .

    noun verb noun adverb


    Tara speaks Englis well.
    h

    noun verb adjectiv noun


    e

    Tara speaks good English.

    pronoun verb preposition determiner noun adverb

    She ran to the station quickly.

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

    She likes big snake but I hate them.


    s

    Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech:

    interjecti pron conj det adj. nou ver prep noun adverb
    on . . . n b .

    Well, she and my youn Joh wal to schoo slowly


    g n k l .

    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 conjunction!

    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.


    word part of speech example

    well adjective Are you well?

    adverb She speaks well.

    interjection Well! That's expensive!

    afternoo noun We ate in the afternoon.


    n
    noun acting as adjective We had afternoon tea.

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