Parts of Speech

PART OF SPEECH noun pronoun verb adjective adverb preposition conjunction interjection article

BASIC FUNCTION names a person, place, or thing takes the place of a noun identifies action or state of being modifies a noun modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb shows a relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence joins words, phrases, and clauses expresses emotion identifies and specifies a noun

EXAMPLES pirate, Caribbean, ship I, you, he, she, it, ours, them, who sing, dance, believe, be hot, lazy, funny softly, lazily, often up, over, against, by, for and, but, or, yet ah, whoops, ouch a,an, the

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