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Parts of Speech Table

This document provides a table summarizing the 8 main parts of speech in English: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It gives the function or job of each part of speech, example words, and example sentences using the words. The document notes that some grammar sources categorize English parts of speech into 9 or 10 categories instead of the traditional 8.

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Parts of Speech Table

This document provides a table summarizing the 8 main parts of speech in English: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It gives the function or job of each part of speech, example words, and example sentences using the words. The document notes that some grammar sources categorize English parts of speech into 9 or 10 categories instead of the traditional 8.

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Parts of Speech Table

part of
function or "job" example words example sentences
speech

(to) be, have, do,


EnglishClub.com is a web site.
Verb action or state like, work, sing,
I like EnglishClub.com.
can, must

pen, dog, work,


music, town, This is my dog. He lives in my
Noun thing or person
London, teacher, house. We live in London.
John

a/an, the, 69, some,


Adjective describes a noun good, big, red, My dog is big. I like big dogs.
well, interesting

quickly, silently, My dog eats quickly. When he


describes a verb,
Adverb well, badly, very, is very hungry, he eats really
adjective or adverb
really quickly.

I, you, he, she, Tara is Indian. She is


Pronoun replaces a noun
some beautiful.

links a noun to We went to school on


Preposition to, at, after, on, but
another word Monday.

I like dogs and I like cats. I


joins clauses or
Conjunction and, but, when like cats and dogs. I like dogs
sentences or words
but I don't like cats.

short exclamation,
oh!, ouch!, hi!, Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How
Interjection sometimes inserted
well are you? Well, I don't know.
into a sentence

* 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

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