Examples of Parts of Speech

Adjectives
Describe nouns or pronouns
Sentence examples:
Chinese food is my favorite. Life was hard in ancient times.
This leather couch is easy to clean. Tart cherries make the best pies.

• abundant • filthy • lively • relieved

• alive • flaky • loudest • screeching
• Australian • freezing • melted • shallow
• blue • grumpy • more beautiful • swifter
• brighter • heavy • most magnificent • tart
• careful • helpless • narrow • thankful
• classier • icy • nutritious • thundering
• dustiest • isolated • old-fashioned • ugly
• easy • Jewish • polite • uneven
• empty • jolly • prickly • warmest
• expensive • knowledgeable • purple • wood
• few • Latino • quaint • yummy
• fierce • less • raspy • zany

Adverbs
Modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb
Sentence examples:
The rabbit magically appeared. Cautiously we approaced the accident.
I am extremely disappointed in you. She answered the question truthfully.

• always • everywhere • never • there

• beautifully • extremely • now • truthfully
• briskly • freely • often • usually
• carefully • here • quickly • very
• cautiously • last • randomly • weirdly
• cheerfully • lightly • rarely • wickedly
• delicately • magically • sometimes • wholeheartedly
• early • many • somewhere • yesterday
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Conjunctions
Join words, phrases, and clauses
Sentence examples:
I can’t go unless you take me. While I bake, you clean.
She didn’t arrive yet. Not only is he smart, he’s hard working.

• after • but also • not • until

• although • either • not only • when
• and • either/or • or • whenever
• as if • even if • since • where
• because • for • so • wherever
• before • if • so that • whether
• both • neither • though • while
• but • nor • unless • yet

Interjections
Express emotion, meaning, or feelings
Sentence examples:
Yuck! This tastes awful. Huh? I didn’t hear you.
Whoa, just hang on a minute. Thanks! The gift is perfect.

• aha • fiddlesticks • phooey • whoops

• alas • good grief • pow • wow
• bazinga • hey • rats • yeah
• bingo • holy buckets • shh • yes
• boo • hurray • shoo • yikes
• bravo • oh dear • thanks • yipee
• cheers • oops • uh-huh
• congratulations • ouch • uh-oh
• encore • ow • ugh
• eureka • phew • wahoo
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Nouns
Name people, places, things, qualities, or actions
Sentence examples:
The whole troop of Girl Scouts is here. Baking is my favorite activity.
Florida has nice weather in the winter. She does a lot of hiking in the summer.

• audience • eggplant • quartet • society

• anchovy • family • Phil • team
• band • herd • Pythagorean theory • Venezuela
• Boston Tea Party • jury • Rio Grande • Wednesday
• Buddha • justice • running
• committee • King Charles • Russian
• crowd • laughing • safety
• democracy • music • September

Pronouns
Replace nouns
Sentence examples:
I will be there. Anybody can do this.
The bag is yours. These are for you.

• all • his • ours • this

• another •I • ourselves • those
• anything • its • several • we
• both • itself • she • which
• each other • many • some • who
• everyone • mine • something • whom
• everything • my • such • whose
• few • myself • that • you
• hers • nobody • theirs • yours
• herself • none • themselves • yourselves
• himself • one another • these • us
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Prepositions
Connect a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence
Sentence examples:
Against all odds, she won. It is near the stream.
Wait until the traffic clears. He looked beneath the sofa.

• about • concerning • like • than

• across • considering • near • through
• after • down • off • toward
• along • during • onto • underneath
• around • except • over • until
• behind • for • past • upon
• beneath • from • regarding • via
• between • inside • save • within
• beyond • into • since • without

Verbs
Express action or a state of being
Sentence examples:
We are very happy. Hand in your papers.
I could be persuaded. My grandma grows roses.

• act • does • is • stay

• am • fall • keep • study
• appear • feel • look • taste
• are • felt • may • turn
• be • get • might • was
• become • go • must • wax
• being • got • prove • went
• can • grow • remain
• come • had • run
• did • has • seem
• do • have • should