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Parts of Speech Table

This document summarizes the 8 parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It provides examples of each part of speech and example sentences using them. Verbs can be further broken down into lexical verbs, auxiliary verbs, and determiners may also be considered a separate part of speech from adjectives.

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Parts of Speech Table

This document summarizes the 8 parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It provides examples of each part of speech and example sentences using them. Verbs can be further broken down into lexical verbs, auxiliary verbs, and determiners may also be considered a separate part of speech from adjectives.

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Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech.

Part of speech Function or “job” Example words Example sentences


Verb Action or state (to) be, have, do, like, Garfield is a cat.
work, sing, can, must I like Garfield.
Noun Thing or person pen, dog, work, music, This is my dog.
town, London, teacher, He lives in my house.
John We live in London.
Adjectives Describes a noun a/an, the, 23, some, good, My dog is big.
big, red, interesting I like big dogs.
Adverb Describes a verb, quickly, silently, well, My dog eats quickly.
adjective or adverb badly, very, really When he is very hungry,
he eats really quickly.
Pronoun Replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is my sister; she is
beautiful.
Preposition Links a noun to to, at, after, on, but We went to the park on
another word Monday.
Conjunction Joins clauses or and, but, when, for, nor, I like dogs and cats.
sentences or words or, yet, so, since, I like cars, but I don’t like
driving.
Interjection Short exclamation, Oh! Ouch! Hi! Well. Ouch! That hurts!
sometimes inserted Hi! How are you?
into a sentence Well, I don’t know.
Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:

 Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)


o I like Vampire Diaries.
 Auxiliary Verbs or Helping Verbs (be, have, must)
o I have watched it.
 Auxiliary verbs are always followed by another verb. Some auxiliary verbs can
become lexical verbs if they are not used with other verbs, such as:
o I have seven pairs of shoes.
 Determiners (a, the, every, this, that) modify and determine the kind of reference a noun
or noun group has.
 They may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized
under Adjectives.
o These apples are rotten.

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