Parts of Speech Table

Parts of
Functions Example words Example sentences
speech

a person (police officer,

a word or lexical item Michael), place (coastline,
Noun denoting any abstract London), thing  (necktie, The cat sat on the mat.
or concrete entity television), idea (happiness),
or quality (bravery)

a word denoting an
an action (walk), occurrence That idea is interesting
action (walk),
Verb (happen), or state of being Tell me something
occurrence (happen),
(be) interesting.
or state of being (be)

a modifier of a noun or
Adjective big, brave That’s an interesting idea
pronoun

a modifier of an
Adverb adjective, verb, or very, quite Frankly, I don’t believe you
other adverb

a substitute for a noun That

Pronoun them, he
or noun phrase reminds me of something.

a word that relates a

noun to another word
Preposition or phrase in the in, of The cat is in the box
sentence and aids in
syntactic context

a syntactic connector; He is not

Conjunction links words, phrases, and, but only handsome, but
or clauses alsobrilliant.

an emotional greeting
Interjection Hurrah, Alas, well Well, that’s great
or exclamation