Parts Of Speech

Parts of Speech
Introduction
“Parts of speech” are the basic types of words that English has. Most grammar books say that there are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections. We will add one more type: articles.
It is important to be able to recognize and identify the different types of words in English, so that you canunderstand grammar explanations and use the right word form in the right place. Here is a brief explanation of what the parts of speech are:
Noun | A noun is a naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action.
Examples: cowboy, theatre, box, thought, tree, kindness, arrival |
Verb | A verb is a word which describes an action (doing something) or a state(being something).
Examples: walk, talk, think, believe, live, like, want |
Adjective | An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun.
Examples: big, yellow, thin, amazing, beautiful, quick, important |
Adverb | An adverb is a word which usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. It may also tell you when or where something happened.Examples: slowly, intelligently, well, yesterday, tomorrow, here, everywhere |
Pronoun | A pronoun is used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun.
Examples: I, you, he, she, it, we, they |
Conjunction | A conjunction joins two words, phrases or sentences together.
Examples: but, so, and, because, or |
Preposition | A preposition usually comes before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase. Itjoins the noun to some other part of the sentence.
Examples: on, in, by, with, under, through, at |
Interjection | An interjection is an unusual kind of word, because it often stands alone. Interjections are words which express emotion or surprise, and they are usually followed by exclamation marks.
Examples: Ouch!, Hello!, Hurray!, Oh no!, Ha! |
Article | An article is used to introduce anoun.
Examples: the, a, an |

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The Parts of Speech
Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, thepronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same wordcan be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech, followed by an exercise.
Books are made of ink, paper, and glue.
In this sentence, "books" is a noun, the subject of the sentence.
Deborah waits patientlywhile Bridget books the tickets.
Here "books" is a verb, and its subject is "Bridget."
We walk down the street.
In this sentence, "walk" is a verb, and its subject is the pronoun "we."
The mail carrier stood on the walk.
In this example, "walk" is a noun, which is part of a prepositional phrase describing where the mail carrier stood.
The town decided to build a new jail.
Here "jail" is anoun, which is the object of the infinitive phrase "to build."
The sheriff told us that if we did not leave town immediately he would jail us.
Here "jail" is part of the compound verb "would jail."
They heard high pitched cries in the middle of the night.
In this sentence, "cries" is a noun acting as the direct object of the verb "heard."
The baby cries all night long and all day long.
Buthere "cries" is a verb that describes the actions of the subject of the sentence, the baby.
The next few sections explain each of the parts of speech in detail. When you have finished, you might want to test yourself by trying the exercise.
The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verbor compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions,...