Parts of speech table
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This document summarizes the 8 traditional parts of speech in English: verb, noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. It provides the function or "job" of each part of speech, example words that fit into each category, and example sentences using the different parts of speech. It also notes that some sources categorize English parts of speech into 9 or 10 categories by treating verbs and determiners as separate types. The document concludes by providing additional example sentences that incorporate different parts of speech.
Parts of speech table
- 1. 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 function or "job" example words example sentences Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com. Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. Adjective describes a noun a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs. Adverb describes a verb, adjective or adverb quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. Preposition links a noun to another word to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday. Conjunction joins clauses or sentences or words and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. Interjection short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know. * 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
- 2. Parts of Speech Examples Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech: verb noun verb Stop! John works. pronoun She verb noun verb John noun verb Tara noun working. noun loves animals. noun is verb verb adjective Animals like noun verb adjective noun well. Tara speaks good English. pronoun verb preposition adjective ran to pron. verb adj. She likes big people. adverb speaks English She kind noun noun snakes the noun adverb station quickly. conjunction pron. verb pron. but I hate them. Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech: interjection pron. conj. Well, she and adj. young noun verb prep. noun John school slowly. walk to adverb