Parts of Speech

In English there are 9 parts of speech. They are

Verb

A verb is used to show an action or a state of being.
Eg: go, write, exist etc

Noun

A noun word used to refer to people, animal, objects, substances, states, events, ideas or feelings. A noun functions as a subject or object of a word and can be modified by an adjective.
In simple terms a noun names a person, place, thing or idea.

Eg: Marry, Tiger, table, freedom, Love

Pronoun

A pronoun is used in the place of a noun or phrase
Eg: I, you, he, she, it, they….

Adjective

Adjectives are used to describe or specify a noun or pronoun.
Eg: Good, Beautiful, nice, my…

Adverb

An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective, and other adverbs. An adverb tells how, how often, when or where.
Eg: Completely, never, there….

Preposition

Prepositions are used before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when, how and why. A preposition shows relationship (such as direction, time or placement) between a noun or pronoun and another word in a sentence
Eg: in, above, to, for, at….

Conjunction

Conjunction joins clauses or sentences or words. It joins two ideas or shows the relationship between two parts of a sentence.
Eg: and, but, when

Interjunction

Interjunction are used to show strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point.
Oh!, Good Lord

Article

An article comes before a noun in an English sentence and sometimes shows if the noun refers to a specific or general person, place or thing. The three articles in English are a, an and the.
Eg: A dog, an apple etc

 

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