Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 9 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you
click on each part of speech.

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

Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, EnglishClub is a web site.
like, work, sing, I like EnglishClub.
(is included) can, must

Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He lives in

music, town, my house. We live
London, teacher, in London.
John

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

well, interesting like big dogs.

Article limits or a/an, the I have the dogs.

"determines" a
noun

Adverb describes a verb, quickly, silently, My dog eats quickly. When

adjective or adverb well, badly, very, he is veryhungry, he
really eats reallyquickly.
Adverb of Quality,
Quantity, Place

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

some beautiful.

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

Preposition links a noun to to, at, after, on, We went to school on

another word but Monday.

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.

Interjection short exclamation, oh!, ouch!, hi!, Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How
sometimes inserted well are you? Well, I don't know.
into a sentence

Parts of Speech Examples

Here are some examples of sentences made with different English parts of
speech:

verb

Stop!

nou
n verb

John works.

nou verb verb

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n

John is working.

pronoun verb noun

She love animals.

s

nou
n verb noun adverb

Tara speaks Englis well.

h

nou
n verb adjective noun

Tara speaks good English.

pronou prepositio
n verb n determiner noun adverb

She ran to the station quickly.

pron ver pron

. b adj. noun conjunction . verb pron.

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 She likes big snake but I hate them.
s

Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech:

interjectio pron conj det nou ver prep adver

n . . . adj. n b . noun b

Well, she and my youn John wal to schoo slowly.

g k l

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Words with More Than One Job
Many words in English can have more than one job, or be more than one
part of speech. For example, "work" can be a verb and a noun; "but" can be
a conjunction and a preposition; "well" can be an adjective, an adverb and
an interjection. In addition, many nouns can act as adjectives.

To analyze the part of speech, ask yourself: "What job is this word doing in
this sentence?"

In the table below you can see a few examples. Of course, there are more,
even for some of the words in the table. In fact, if you look in a good
dictionary you will see that the word "but" has six jobs to do:

 verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjunction!

word part of speech example

work noun My work is easy.

verb I work in London.

but conjunction John came but Mary didn't come.

preposition Everyone came but Mary.

well adjective Are you well?

adverb She speaks well.

interjection Well! That's expensive!

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word part of speech example

afternoo noun We ate in the afternoon.

n

noun acting as We had afternoon tea.

adjective

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List of Examples of Parts of Speech

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adverbs/list-of-100-adverbs.html

Example Sentences

EnglishClub is a web site. I like EnglishClub.

This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.

My dogs are big. I like big dogs.

I have two dogs and some rabbits.

My dog eats quickly. When he is veryhungry, he eats reallyquickly.

Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.

We went to school onMonday.

I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats anddogs. I like dogs but I don't like
cats.

Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

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