PART OF SPEECH

function or "job" example words example sentences

part of speech

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

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

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

good, big, red, well, My dog is big. I like big

Adjective describes a noun
interesting dogs.

describes a verb, My dog eats quickly.

quickly, silently, well,
Adverb adjective or When he is very hungry, he
badly, very, really
adverb eats really quickly.
part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences

Tara is Indian. She is

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

links a noun to We went to school

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

I like dogs and I like

joins clauses or cats. I like cats and
Conjunction and, but, when
sentences or words dogs. I like dogs but
I don't like cats.

short exclamation, Ouch! That hurts!

Interjection sometimes inserted oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Hi! How are you?
into a sentence Well, I don't know.
 • Parts of Speech Examples
Here are some sentences made with different
English parts of speech
verb noun verb noun To be verb
workin
Stop! John works. John is
g.

prono adjecti
verb noun noun verb noun
un ve
Animal
She loves animals. like kind people.
s

noun verb noun adverb noun verb adjective noun

Tara speaks English well. Tara speaks good English.

 prepositio
pronoun verb adjective noun adverb
n

She ran to the station quickly.

conjunc
pron. verb adj. noun pron. verb pron.
tion

She likes big snakes but I hate them.

interj
pron. conj. adj. noun verb prep. noun adverb
ection

Well, she and young John walk to school slowly.