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

(to) be, have, do, My dog is a collie. I

Verb action or state like, work, sing, like to play fetch
can, must with her.

pen, dog, work, music, This is my dog. He

Noun thing or person town, London,
teacher, John
lives in my house. We
live in London.

a/an, the, 69, some,

My dog is big. I like big
Adjective describes a noun good, big, red, well,
dogs.
interesting

My dog eats quickly.

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

Tara is Indian. She is

Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some
beautiful.

links a noun to We went to school on

Preposition another word
to, at, after, on, but
Monday.

I like dogs and I like

joins clauses or cats. I like cats and
Conjunction sentences or words
and, but, or, nor
dogs. I like dogs but I
don't like cats.

short exclamation, Ouch! That hurts! Hi!

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