PART
OF SPEECH
part
of speech
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function
or "job"
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example
words
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example
sentences
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action or state
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(to) be, have, do, like,
work, sing, can, must
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EnglishClub is a
web site. I like EnglishClub.
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thing or person
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pen, dog, work, music,
town, London, teacher, John
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This
is my dog.
He lives in my house.
We live in London.
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describes a noun
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good, big, red, well,
interesting
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My dogs are big.
I like big dogs.
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limits or "determines"
a noun
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a/an, the, 2, some, many
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I have two dogs
and some rabbits.
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describes a verb,
adjective or adverb
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quickly, silently, well,
badly, very, really
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My dog eats quickly.
When he is very hungry,
he eats really quickly.
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replaces a noun
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I, you, he, she, some
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Tara
is Indian.
She is
beautiful.
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links a noun to another
word
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to, at, after, on, but
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We
went to school on Monday.
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joins clauses or
sentences or words
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and, but, when
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I
like dogs and I
like cats.
I
like cats and dogs.
I like dogs but I
don't like cats.
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|
short exclamation,
sometimes inserted into a sentence
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oh!, ouch!, hi!, well
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Ouch!
That hurts! Hi!
How are you? Well,
I don't know.
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*
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
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pronoun
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verb
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preposition
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determiner
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noun
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adverb
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She
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ran
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to
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the
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station
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quickly.
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pron.
|
verb
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adj.
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noun
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conjunction
|
pron.
|
verb
|
pron.
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She
|
likes
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big
|
snakes
|
but
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I
|
hate
|
them.
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Here
is a sentence that contains every part of speech:
interjection
|
pron.
|
conj.
|
det.
|
adj.
|
noun
|
verb
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prep.
|
noun
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adverb
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Well,
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she
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and
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my
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young
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John
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walk
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to
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school
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slowly.
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