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    Parts of Speech

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    Parts of speech are the basic building blocks of the English language. There are 8 main parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Each part of speech plays a specific role - for example, verbs are used to express actions while nouns refer to people, places, and things. Understanding parts of speech helps with analyzing sentences and improving writing skills.

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    Parts of speech are the basic building blocks of the English language. There are 8 main parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Each part of speech plays a specific role - for example, verbs are used to express actions while nouns refer to people, places, and things. Understanding parts of speech helps with analyzing sentences and improving writing skills.

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    Parts of speech are the basic building blocks of the English language. There are 8 main parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Each part of speech plays a specific role - for example, verbs are used to express actions while nouns refer to people, places, and things. Understanding parts of speech helps with analyzing sentences and improving writing skills.

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    Parts of Speech

    What is a Part of Speech?

    We can categorize English words into 8 basic types called "parts of


    speech" or "word classes". It's quite important to recognize parts of
    speech. This helps you to analyze sentences and understand them. It also
    helps you to construct good sentences.
    NOUNS
    Nouns in English can be singular or plural. to form a regular plural, we simply add -s
    or -es to the end of a noun. Irregular plurals do not follow this rule.

    PRONOUNS
    Pronouns are used to stand in place for a noun, because in English we don’t like to
    repeat nouns again and again.

    VERBS
    Verbs are words we use to talk about actions, states, and occurrences (things that
    happen). Many people would say that nouns and verbs are the most important and
    useful parts of speech in any language.
    ADVERBS
    Like adjectives, adverbs are describing words. But while adjectives describe only
    nouns, adverbs can describe verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or entire sentences.

    ADJECTIVES
    Adjectives are words that describe, or modify, nouns. They generally (but not always)
    come before nouns.

    CONJUNCTIONS
    Conjunctions are words that connect. They can connect, for example, a list of nouns in
    a series. But most of the time, when we are talking about conjunctions, we are talking
    about connecting one clause to another clause in the same sentence.
    Preposition
    A preposition is an important part of the English language. It is used to show a
    relationship between a noun or pronoun in a sentence and another word in the
    sentence. A preposition must always be followed by a noun or pronoun in a
    sentence. It can never be followed by a verb.

    Interjection
    An interjection is a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from
    the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.
    Parts of Speech Table.

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


    Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He
    music, town, London, lives in my house.
    teacher, John We live in London.

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


    beautiful.

    Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, EnglishClub is a web
    work, sing, can, must site.
    I like EnglishClub.
    Parts of Speech Table.
    part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences
    Adverb describes a verb, quickly, silently, well, My dog eats quickly.
    adjective or badly, very, really When he
    adverb is very hungry, he
    eats really quickly.

    Adjective describes a noun good, big, red, well, My dogs are big. I


    interesting like big dogs.
    Conjunction joins clauses or and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I
    sentences or words like cats and dogs. I like
    dogs but I don't like cats.
    Preposition links a noun to to, at, after, on, but We
    another word went to school on Monda
    y.
    Interjection short exclamation, oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How
    sometimes are you? Well, I don't
    inserted into a know.
    sentence
    1. "My sister speaks good English." Which word is a verb?
    sister
    speaks
    good

    2. Verbs are one type of word, and ________ are another type of word.
    nouns
    letters
    sentences

    3. How many different types of word, or "parts of speech", does English have?
    five
    seven
    eight
    4. Different parts of speech have different jobs. What do verbs like "run" and "learn" do?
    express things
    express actions
    tell us more about a noun

    5. "Let's watch a funny movie." Which word is a noun?


    watch
    funny
    movie

    6. "Do you like your new teacher?" Which word is an adjective?


    like
    new
    teacher
    7. Adjectives are words like "hot" and "loud" that tell us more about
     a noun
     a verb
     an adverb

    8. Another part of speech is the adverb. These are words like "quickly" and "quietly" that tell us more about
     a noun
     a verb
     an adjective

    9. "I study hard before a test." In this sentence, which word is an adverb?
     study
     hard
     test

    10. "The test wasn't difficult, so I passed easily." The word "difficult" is
    a verb
    an adverb
    an adjective

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