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Parts of Speech Table

This document summarizes the 8 main parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It provides examples of how each part of speech is used and example sentences containing different parts of speech. Additionally, it notes that some words can function as more than one part of speech and provides examples like "work" being both a noun and verb and "but" being both a conjunction and preposition.

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Parts of Speech Table

This document summarizes the 8 main parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It provides examples of how each part of speech is used and example sentences containing different parts of speech. Additionally, it notes that some words can function as more than one part of speech and provides examples like "work" being both a noun and verb and "but" being both a conjunction and preposition.

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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 Verb function or "job" action or state example words (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really I, you, he, she, some to, at, after, on, but and, but, when oh!, ouch!, hi!, well example sentences EnglishClub.com is a web site. Ilike EnglishClub.com.

Noun

thing or person

This is my dog. He lives in myhouse. We live in London.

Adjective

describes a noun

I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.

Adverb

describes a verb, adjective or adverb replaces a noun links a noun to another word joins clauses or sentences or words short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence

My dog eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly. Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. We went to school on Monday. I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

Pronoun Preposition Conjunction

Interjection

* 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

Parts of Speech Examples


Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech: verb Stop! noun John verb works. noun animals. noun English noun John verb is verb working. verb like adjective kind verb speaks noun station pron. I noun people. adjective good adverb quickly. verb hate pron. them. noun English.

pronoun She noun Tara

verb loves

noun Animals

verb speaks verb ran verb likes

adverb well.

noun Tara

pronoun She pron. She

preposition to

adjective the

adj. big

noun snakes

conjunction but

Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech: interjection pron. conj. adj. noun verb prep. noun adverb

Well,

she

and

young

John

walk

to

school

slowly.

Words with More than One Job


Many words in English can have more than one job, or be more than one part of speech. For example, "work" can be a verb and a noun; "but" can be a conjunction and a preposition; "well" can be an adjective, an adverb and an interjection. In addition, many nouns can act as adjectives. To analyze the part of speech, ask yourself: "What job is this word doing in this sentence?" In the table below you can see a few examples. Of course, there are more, even for some of the words in the table. In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word "but" has six jobs to do:

verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction! part of speech noun verb example My work is easy. I work in London. John came but Mary didn't come. Everyone came but Mary. Are you well? She speaks well. Well! That's expensive! We ate in the afternoon.

word work

but

conjunction preposition

well

adjective adverb interjection

afternoon noun

noun acting as adjective We had afternoon tea.

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