Parts of Speech

Part of Speech Function Example Words Example Sentence

noun person, animal dog, pen, England, Affan lives with
or thing man, carrot, Tom his dog and cat in
London.
verb action, state or have, happen, be, Jane must study
occurrence bring, read, walk, hard and learn
dance well.
adjective describes a noun beautiful, big, red, The little girl loves
fruity, interesting her old, ragged doll.
pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, we, She went to the
they, it, some shops with him.
They had fun.
adverb describes a slowly, happily, Alice and Jim
verb, adjective, incredibly, truly, sometimes run
adverb, etc. kindly quickly together.
preposition links a noun to down, from, into, My dog is lying
another word like, near, on, under, down next to me
up on the floor.
conjunction joins words, for, and, but, or, I like bears and
phrases or yet, so, nor lions, but I don't
clauses like cats or dogs.
interjection word or short oh, ouch, hey, well, Ouch! That hurt.
phrase that um, huh, ugh, help! Oh no, I tore my
conveys emotion jeans too. Oops!
determiner introduces a that, my, these, his, The boy supported
noun a couple, the his local team.

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