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Saturday, June 10, 2017

PART OF SPEECH UNIT: 3

PART OF SPEECH

part of speech
function or "job"
example words
example sentences
action or state
(to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must
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thing or person
pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John
This is my dog.
He lives in my house. We live in London.
describes a noun
good, big, red, well, interesting
My dogs are big. I like big dogs.
limits or "determines" a noun
a/an, the, 2, some, many
I have two dogs and some rabbits.
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.
replaces a noun
I, you, he, she, some
Tara is Indian.
 She is beautiful.
links a noun to another word
to, at, after, on, but
We went to school on Monday.
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.
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 traditionally categorize English into 8 parts of speech. Other say 10. At EnglishClub, we use the more recent categorization of 9 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:
  • Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:
    • lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
    • auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)
  • Determiners may be treated as adjectives, instead of being a separate part of speech.


Parts of Speech Examples
Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech:
verb
Stop!

   
noun
verb
John
works.


   
noun
verb
verb
John
is
working.


pronoun
verb
noun
She
loves
animals.



   
noun
verb
adjective
noun
Animals
like
kind
people.


noun
verb
noun
adverb
Tara
speaks
English
well.

   
noun
verb
adjective
noun
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
big
snakes
but
  I
hate
them.


Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech:
interjection
pron.
conj.
det.
adj.
noun
verb
prep.
noun
adverb
Well,
she
and
my
young
John
walk
to
school
slowly.



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