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Parts of Speech Assignment

This document defines and provides examples of the eight main parts of speech in English: verb, noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Verbs express actions or states of being, nouns refer to people, places, things, pronouns replace nouns, adjectives describe nouns, adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, prepositions link nouns to other words, conjunctions join clauses or sentences, and interjections are short exclamatory words. Examples of common words for each part of speech are given.

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Parts of Speech Assignment

This document defines and provides examples of the eight main parts of speech in English: verb, noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Verbs express actions or states of being, nouns refer to people, places, things, pronouns replace nouns, adjectives describe nouns, adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, prepositions link nouns to other words, conjunctions join clauses or sentences, and interjections are short exclamatory words. Examples of common words for each part of speech are given.

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Parts of Speech (ENGLISH-001)

Part of Function or Example Example Sentences


speech "job" words
Verb action or state (to) be, have, EnglishClub is a web
do, like, site.
work, sing, I like EnglishClub.
can, must
Noun thing or person pen, dog, This is my dog. He
work, music, lives in my house. We
town, live in London.
London,
teacher,
John
Adjective describes a a/an, the, 2, I have two dogs. My
noun some, good, dogs are big. I
big, red, well, like bigdogs.
interesting
Adverb describes a quickly, My dog eats quickly.
verb, adjective silently, well, When he
or adverb badly, very, is veryhungry, he
really eats reallyquickly.

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


noun she, some beautiful.
Preposition links a noun to to, at, after, We went to school on
another word on, but Monday.
Conjunction joins clauses or and, but, I like dogs and I like
sentences or when cats. I like
words cats anddogs. I like
dogs but I don't like
cats.
Interjection short oh!, ouch!, Ouch! That hurts! Hi!
exclamation, hi!, well How are you? Well, I
sometimes don't know.
inserted into a
sentence

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