Parts of Speech

What is a Part of Speech?

We can categorize English words into 8 basic types called "parts of

speech" or "word classes". It's quite important to recognize parts of
speech. This helps you to analyze sentences and understand them. It also
helps you to construct good sentences.
NOUNS
Nouns in English can be singular or plural. to form a regular plural, we simply add -s
or -es to the end of a noun. Irregular plurals do not follow this rule.

PRONOUNS
Pronouns are used to stand in place for a noun, because in English we don’t like to
repeat nouns again and again.

VERBS
Verbs are words we use to talk about actions, states, and occurrences (things that
happen). Many people would say that nouns and verbs are the most important and
useful parts of speech in any language.
ADVERBS
Like adjectives, adverbs are describing words. But while adjectives describe only
nouns, adverbs can describe verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or entire sentences.

ADJECTIVES
Adjectives are words that describe, or modify, nouns. They generally (but not always)
come before nouns.

CONJUNCTIONS
Conjunctions are words that connect. They can connect, for example, a list of nouns in
a series. But most of the time, when we are talking about conjunctions, we are talking
about connecting one clause to another clause in the same sentence.
Preposition
A preposition is an important part of the English language. It is used to show a
relationship between a noun or pronoun in a sentence and another word in the
sentence. A preposition must always be followed by a noun or pronoun in a
sentence. It can never be followed by a verb.

Interjection
An interjection is a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from
the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.
Parts of Speech Table.

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

Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He
music, town, London, lives in my house.
teacher, John We live in London.

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

beautiful.

Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, EnglishClub is a web
work, sing, can, must site.
I like EnglishClub.
Parts of Speech Table.
part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences
Adverb describes a verb, quickly, silently, well, My dog eats quickly.
adjective or badly, very, really When he
adverb is very hungry, he
eats really quickly.

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

interesting like big dogs.
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.
Preposition links a noun to to, at, after, on, but We
another word went to school on Monda
y.
Interjection short exclamation, oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How
sometimes are you? Well, I don't
inserted into a know.
sentence
1. "My sister speaks good English." Which word is a verb?
sister
speaks
good

2. Verbs are one type of word, and ________ are another type of word.
nouns
letters
sentences

3. How many different types of word, or "parts of speech", does English have?
five
seven
eight
4. Different parts of speech have different jobs. What do verbs like "run" and "learn" do?
express things
express actions
tell us more about a noun

5. "Let's watch a funny movie." Which word is a noun?

watch
funny
movie

6. "Do you like your new teacher?" Which word is an adjective?

like
new
teacher
7. Adjectives are words like "hot" and "loud" that tell us more about
 a noun
 a verb
 an adverb

8. Another part of speech is the adverb. These are words like "quickly" and "quietly" that tell us more about
 a noun
 a verb
 an adjective

9. "I study hard before a test." In this sentence, which word is an adverb?
 study
 hard
 test

10. "The test wasn't difficult, so I passed easily." The word "difficult" is
a verb
an adverb
an adjective