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Parts of Speech Table: Part of Speech Function or "Job" Example Words Example Sentences

This document provides a summary of the 8 parts of speech in English. It lists each part of speech along with its function and examples. The 8 parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. For each part of speech, it gives a brief definition and one or two illustrative examples to show how that part of speech is used.

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Parts of Speech Table: Part of Speech Function or "Job" Example Words Example Sentences

This document provides a summary of the 8 parts of speech in English. It lists each part of speech along with its function and examples. The 8 parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. For each part of speech, it gives a brief definition and one or two illustrative examples to show how that part of speech is used.

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Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech. part of speech Verb function or example "job" words action or state (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interestin g quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really I, you, example sentences EnglishClub.com is a web site. Ilike EnglishClub.com.

Noun

thing or person

This is my dog. He lives in myhouse. We live in London.

Adjective

describes a noun

I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.

Adverb

describes a verb, adjective or adverb

My dog eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly.

Pronoun

replaces a

Tara is Indian. She is

noun Preposition links a noun to another word joins clauses or sentences or words

he, she, some to, at, after, on, but and, but, when

beautiful. We went to school on Monday . I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.

Conjunctio n

Interjectio n

short oh!, Ouch! That hurts! Hi! exclamation ouch!, hi!, How are you? Well, I , sometimes well don't know. inserted into a sentence

* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub.com, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:

Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech: o Lexical Verbs (work, like, run) o Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must) Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives

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