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Part of Speech

The document outlines the eight parts of speech in English: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection, detailing their definitions and examples. Each part of speech plays a specific role in sentence structure, helping to convey meaning and relationships between words. The document serves as an educational resource for understanding the functions and types of each part of speech.

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Part of Speech

The document outlines the eight parts of speech in English: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection, detailing their definitions and examples. Each part of speech plays a specific role in sentence structure, helping to convey meaning and relationships between words. The document serves as an educational resource for understanding the functions and types of each part of speech.

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Part of speech

Reporting from Learn English, parts of speech are classifications of words that are
categorized according to their roles and functions in the sentence structure of a
language.

Types of Parts of Speech


Let's get acquainted with each of the parts of speech.

1. Noun

This part of speech serves to name a person, place, thing, or idea. Generally,
nouns are preceded by the particles a, an, and the.
Nouns can also be singular or plural and concrete or abstract. In a sentence, a
noun can function as a subject, direct object, indirect object, subject
complement, or object of a preposition.
The various parts of speech include countable and uncountable nouns, proper
and common nouns, abstract and concrete nouns, and collective nouns.
Example:
 Countable noun (can be counted): Book, car, foot, mountain, tree.
 Uncountable noun (uncountable): English, happiness, meat, milk, snow.
 Common noun (general): Country, desert, physicist.
 Proper nouns (specific): Indonesia, Sahara, Albert Einstein
 Abstract noun (expressing ideas, concepts, feelings, circumstances, traits, or
characters): Idea, honesty, imagination, kindness, love.
 Concrete noun (in the form of material or tangible): Cheese, desk, man, sugar,
water.
 Collective noun (name of group or group): Class, deer, couple, furniture, staff.
2. Pronoun

Pronouns are used to replace nouns. Parts of speech is useful to avoid the
repetition of the use of nouns.
The types include personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative
pronouns, relative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, reflexive pronouns, intensive
pronouns, and reciprocal pronouns. Example:
 Personal pronoun: I, you, we, they, she, he, it.
 Demonstrative pronoun: This, that, these, those.
 Interrogative pronoun: Who, what, which, whom, whose.
 Relative pronoun: Who, which, whom, whose, that.
 Indefinite pronoun: Another, anything, everything, none, someone.
 Reflexive pronoun dan intensive pronoun: Myself, yourself, ourselves,
themselves, herself.
 Reciprocal pronoun: Each other, one another.

3. Verb

Verbs are used to indicate the action of the subject, indicate events, or
circumstances.
The kinds of verbs include: transitive & intransitive verbs, regular & irregular
verbs, action & stative verbs, finite & non-finite verbs, linking verbs, and
causative verbs. Example:
 Transitive verb: Ask, buy, hit, make, show.
 Intransitive verb: arrive, come, go, smile, wait.
 Regular verb: Accept, bake, decide, live, walk.
 Irregular verb: Bear, choose, feel, send, write.
 Action Verb: Eat, grow, jump, run, work.
 Stative verb: Adore, deserve, forgive, impress, sound.
 Finite verb: Transitive dan intransitive verb, action dan stative verb, linking
verb, dan auxiliary verb.
 Non-finite verb: Present participle, past participle, infinitive, bare infinitive.
 Linking verb: Act, be, look, seem, taste.
 Causative verb: Get, have, lead, let, make.
4. Adjective

Adjective is a word used to describe or modify a noun or pronoun. Usually


comes before a noun or pronoun.
However, it can also be located after linking verbs related to the senses (seem,
taste). For a noun or pronoun, there can be more than one adjective.
Example: Old, young, bad, fat, thick, big, small, pretty, and so on .

5. Adverb

Usually used to describe or modify a verb (verb), adjective (adjective), or


other adverb.
However, adverbs never describe a noun and usually answer the questions
how, when, where, why, under what conditions, or to what degree.
Not only that, adverbs of an adjective usually end in –ly particles, such as
deeply, extremely, happily, fairly, and others, but there are also adverbs that
are not derived from adjectives such as very, somewhat, only, quite, and so
on.
The types of adverbs in English are:
 Adverb of time (early, recently, yesterday, now, tonight)
 Adverb of manner (fast, hard, slowly, softly, quickly)
 Adverb of degree (enough, quite, so, too, very)
 Adverb of modality (likely, maybe, perhaps, possibly, unlikely)
 Adverb of frequency (always, barely, daily, often, sometimes)
 Adverb of place (away, behind, here, nearby, somewhere)
 Adverb of focus (also, even, just, mainly, only)

6. Preposition
Preposition Is a part of speech that is placed before a noun or pronoun to form
a phrase that modifies other words in a sentence.
Therefore, prepositions are always part of a prepositional phrase. Prepositions
almost always function as adjectives or adverbs.

Prepositions in English are divided into several types, including:


 Preposition of time (after, before, during, since, until)
 Preposition of place (above, at, in, on, under)
 Preposition of movement (inside, into, off, toward(s), up)
 Prepositition of manner (by, in, like, on, with(out))
 Preposition of purpose (for)
 Preposition of quantity/measure (for, by)

7. Conjuction

This part of speech serves to connect words, phrases, or clauses and also to
show the relationship between connected sentence elements.
There are several types of conjunctions, namely:
 Coordinate conjunction (menghubungkan dua konstruksi gramatikal yang
sama): And, but, nor, or, yet
 Correlative conjunction (digunakan berpasangan): Between … and, either …
or, from … to, rather … than, if … then.
 Subordinate conjunction (membentuk adverbial clause): After, because,
before, although, when.
 Conjunctive adverb (menghubungkan dengan logis dua independent
clause yang berurutan): At last, besides, however, hence, then.

8. Interjection
Interjection is a word used to express different levels of emotion.
Grammatically, it is usually seen as a part that is not related to the main
sentence. Example:
 “Alas, he failed.”
 “Hey! Look at me!”
Parts of Speech

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