How To Learn The Parts Of Speech

Parts of Speech

What is a Part of speech?

We tin can categorize English language words into 9 basic types chosen "parts of speech" or "word classes". It'due south quite important to recognize parts of spoken language. This helps you to clarify sentences and sympathise them. It besides helps you lot to construct good sentences.

Parts of Spoken communication Tabular array
Parts of Speech Examples
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Parts of Speech Tabular array

This is a summary of the nine parts of speech*. You lot tin detect more detail if you lot click on each part of speech.

part of speech	role or "task"	example words	instance sentences
Verb	activeness or state	(to) be, have, practise, like, work, sing, tin can, must	EnglishClub is a web site. I like EnglishClub.
Noun	thing or person	pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John	This is my canis familiaris. He lives in my house. Nosotros live in London.
Describing word	describes a noun	proficient, large, red, well, interesting	My dogs are large. I like big dogs.
Determiner	limits or "determines" a noun	a/an, the, 2, some, many	I have two dogs and some rabbits.
Adverb	describes a verb, describing word or adverb	rapidly, silently, well, badly, very, really	My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really rapidly.
Pronoun	replaces a noun	I, you, he, she, some	Tara is Indian. She is cute.
Preposition	links a noun to some other give-and-take	to, at, after, on, but	We went to school on Mon.
Conjunction	joins clauses or sentences or words	and, but, when	I similar dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I similar dogs but I don't like cats.
Interjection	short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence	oh!, ouch!, hi!, well	Ouch! That hurts! Howdy! How are you? Well, I don't know.

* Some grammar sources traditionally categorize English language into 8 parts of speech. Others say 10. At EnglishClub, we use the more recent categorization of 9 parts of speech communication. Examples of other categorizations are:

Verbs may be treated equally two different parts of speech communication:
- lexical Verbs (piece of work, similar, run)
- auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)
Determiners may exist treated as adjectives, instead of being a separate part of speech.

Parts of Speech Examples

Here are some examples of sentences fabricated with different English parts of speech:

verb
Stop!

noun	verb
John	works.

substantive	verb	verb
John	is	working.

pronoun	verb	noun
She	loves	animals.

noun	verb	noun	adverb
Tara	speaks	English	well.

noun	verb	adjective	substantive
Tara	speaks	good	English.

pronoun	verb	preposition	determiner	noun	adverb
She	ran	to	the	station	quickly.

pron.	verb	adj.	noun	conjunction	pron.	verb	pron.
She	likes	large	snakes	just	I	hate	them.

Here is a sentence that contains every lexical category:

interjection	pron.	conj.	det.	adj.	noun	verb	prep.	substantive	adverb
Well,	she	and	my	young	John	walk	to	school	slowly.

Words with More than Than 1 Chore

Many words in English can have more than i job, or be more than one role of speech communication. For example, "piece of work" can be a verb and a noun; "but" can be a conjunction and a preposition; "well" can exist an adjective, an adverb and an interjection. In addition, many nouns can act equally adjectives.

To analyze the part of speech, inquire yourself: "What job is this discussion doing in this judgement?"

In the table beneath you can see a few examples. Of course, there are more, fifty-fifty for some of the words in the table. In fact, if you look in a proficient dictionary y'all will see that the word "but" has half dozen jobs to do:

verb, substantive, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjunction!

word	lexical category	example
work	noun	My piece of work is easy.
work	verb	I work in London.
but	conjunction	John came but Mary didn't come up.
but	preposition	Anybody came just Mary.
well	adjective	Are you well?
	adverb	She speaks well.
	interjection	Well! That'due south expensive!
afternoon	noun	We ate in the afternoon.
afternoon	noun interim as describing word	Nosotros had afternoon tea.