PA RT S O F S P E E C H

Word classes
A set or category of things having some property or attribute in
common and differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality.

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Main word classes

01 Nouns

02 Verbs

03 Adjectives

04 Adverbs
 CHAPTER 1

Nouns
A noun is a word that names something, such as a
person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, nouns
can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect
object, subject complement, object complement,
appositive, or adjective.

 Two types of nouns

Nouns referring to people
• Man • Women • Girl
• Boy • Mother • Father
Nouns referring to animals and things
• Book • Picture • Girl
• Dog • Place • Computer

Kindness always come back

 CHAPTER 2

Verbs
a word used to describe an action, state, or
occurrence and forming the main part of the predicate
of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

 Verbs discribe
An action
• Run • Travel • Hit
An event
• Rain • Occur
A situation
• Be • Seen • Have
A change
• Grow • Become • Develop

Be a warrior, Not a worrier

CHAPTER 3

Adjectives
Adjective are one of the four major word classes,
along with nouns, verbs and adverbs. Example for
adjective are : Big, Small, Blue, old, red, Rich, poor,
nice and etc. They gives us more information about
people, animals and things represented by nouns
pronouns.

Eg: • Expensive
• Cheep
• White
• Kind
• Young
• Good
• Bag
Whatever you are, be a good one
CHAPTER 4

Adverbs
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an
adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group,
expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance,
manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then,
there ).

Eg:
• Usefully
• Kindly
• Terribly
• Thankfully
• Wisely
• Wrongly
• Badly
Set yourself free
CHAPTER 5
Other word classes
Prepositions
A word governing, and usually preceding,
a noun or pronoun and expressing a
relation to another word or element in
the clause, as in ‘the man on the
platform’, ‘she arrived after dinner’,
‘what did you do it for ?’.
Pronouns
A word that can function as a noun
phrase used by itself and that refers
either to the participants in the
discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or
something mentioned elsewhere in the
discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
Determiners
A word, phrase, or affix that occurs
together with a noun or noun phrase
and serves to express the reference of
that noun or noun phrase in the
context.
CHAPTER 5
Other word classes
Conjunction
a part of speech that connects words,
phrases, or clauses that are called the
conjuncts of the conjunctions. This
definition may overlap with that of other
parts of speech, so what constitutes a
"conjunction" must be defined for each
language.
Interjection
An interjection is a word or expression
that occurs as an utterance on its own and
expresses a spontaneous feeling or
reaction. It is a diverse category,
encompassing many different parts of
speech, such as exclamations, curses,
greetings, response particles, hesitation
markers, and other words.