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Parts of speech are types of word in grammar.

There are many


different word categories: they are called 'lexical categories'. The
most common are these:

Part of Example
Function Example Sentence(s) Notes
Speech Words

A verb has
a subject,
which is a
(to) be,
noun
have, do,
London is a big/small performing
Identifies like,
city. I like apple. the action.
Verb an action work,
Some verbs
or state. sing,
also have
can,
an object,
must
which
receives the
action.
Proper
nouns are a
type of noun
that refers to
something
individual.
pen, dog, Two proper
work, nouns are
Identifies
music, New York
a person, New York City is very
Noun town, City and the
place or beautiful.
London, name
thing.
teacher, Amelia.
John Proper nouns
are
capitalized.
Other nouns
are called
common
nouns.
Adjective Describes 2 (two), The cat A/an, the,
a noun. some, is black and white. some, many
good, are known as
big, red, My house is determiners.
interesti shallow/Small
ng and very clean.
Slowly
describes
the verb eat,
quickly,
The giraffe very
Describes silently,
eats slowly, but when describes
a verb, well,
Adverb it is very hungry, it the adjective
adjective badly,
eats really quickly. hungry and
or adverb. very,
really
really
describes
the adverb
quickly.
I, you,
Replaces She is very good at
Pronoun he, she,
a noun. playing the piano.
some, it
Under links
the noun dog
Links a The dog is under the to the noun
to, at,
noun to table. table.
Preposition after, on,
another The man ran over the Over links
under
word. bridge. the verb ran
to the noun
bridge.
Joins I like
clauses, and, but, apples and oranges,
Conjunction
sentences when, or but I don't like
or words. grapes.
Short
oh!,
Interjection exclamati Ouch! That really hurt!
ouch!, hi!
on.

Verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and interjections are called open


classes because they are parts of speech that can easily add new
words. On the other hand, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions
are closed classes because new words cannot be added easily. For
example, since pronouns are a closed class, there are fairly few
pronouns: I, me, my, mine, myself, you, your, yours, yourself, he,
him, his, his, himself, she, her, her, hers, herself, it, it, its, its, itself,
we, us, our, ours, ourselves, they, them, their, theirs, themselves.
Since pronouns are used to replace whole noun phrases, there is no
need to have many kinds of pronouns. Instead of saying "The Earl of
Sandwich introduced the Earl of Sandwich's favorite food, the
sandwich", one uses the pronoun "his" to replace "the Earl of
Sandwich's" to make the sentence not repeat itself when it doesn't
have to, thus the sentence becomes "The Earl of Sandwich
introduced his favorite food, the sandwich". New nouns, on the
other hand, can easily be made, and are constantly being added into
the English language.

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