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Words Are Used To Form Patterns of English Grammar and Syntax

The document discusses the eight parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. It provides examples of each part of speech and highlights the key words. It then has a short quiz to test the reader's knowledge of parts of speech.

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Words Are Used To Form Patterns of English Grammar and Syntax

The document discusses the eight parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. It provides examples of each part of speech and highlights the key words. It then has a short quiz to test the reader's knowledge of parts of speech.

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Words are used to form patterns of English grammar and syntax.

Each word falls into one of eight


categories referred to as parts of speech. Certain words have further categorization such as: adverbs of
frequency: always, sometimes, often, etc. or determiners: this, that, these, those  . However, the basic
categorization of words in English fall into these eight categories.

Here are the eight commonly recognized parts of speech. Each category has four examples with each
part of speech highlighted to help you learn how these words function in sentences.

The Eight Parts of Speech

Nouns

A word which is a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns can be countable or uncountable. Examples
include: Mount Everest, book, horse, and strength as used in the following sentences.

 Peter Anderson climbed Mount Everest last year.

 I bought a book at the store.

 Have you ever ridden a horse?

 How much strength do you have?

Pronouns

A word that is used to take the place of a noun. There are a number of pronouns such as subject
pronouns, object pronouns, possessive and demonstrative pronouns. Examples include I, they, she, and
us.

 I  went to school in New York.

 They live in that house.

 She drives a fast car.

 She told us to hurry up.

Adjectives

A word that is used to describe a noun or pronoun. There are various types of adjectives which can be
studied in more depth on the adjective page. Adjectives come before the nouns which they describe.
Examples include: difficult, purple, French, and tall.

 It was a very difficult test.

 He drives a purple sports car.

 French food is very tasty.


 That tall man is very funny.

Verbs

A word that indicates an action, being or state or being. There are different types of verbs including
modal verbs, helping verbs, active verbs, phrasal verbs, and passive verbs. Examples include: play, run,
think, and study.

 I usually play tennis on Saturday.

 How fast can you run?

 He thinks about her every day.

 You should study English.

Adverbs

A word that is used to describe a verb which tells how, where, or when something is done. Adverbs of
frequency come before the verbs they modify. Other adverbs come at the end of a sentence. Examples
include: carefully, often, slowly, and usually.

 He did his homework very carefully.

 Tom often goes out to dinner.

 Be careful and drive slowly.

 I usually get up at six o'clock.

Conjunction

A word that is used to join words or groups of words. Conjunctions are used to connect two sentences
into one more complex sentence. Examples include: and, or, because, and although.

 He wants one tomato and one potato.

 You can take the red one or the blue one.

 She's learning English because she wants to move to Canada.

 Although the test was difficult, Peter got an A.

Prepositions

A word used indicating the relationship between a noun or pronoun to another word. There are
numerous prepositions in English used in a variety of manners. Examples include: in, between, from, and
along.
 The sandwich is in the bag.

 I sit between Peter and Jerry.

 He comes from Japan.

 She drove along the street.

Interjections

A single word such as wow!, ah!, oh!, or no!, when used to express strong emotion.

 Wow! That test was easy.

 Ah! Now I understand.

 Oh! I didn't know you wanted to come.

 No! You can't go to the party next week.

Parts of Speech Quiz

Test your knowledge of the parts of speech with this short quiz. Choose the correct option.

1. Jennifer got up early and went to school.

 school is a noun

 school is a verb

2. Peter bought him a present for his birthday.

 him is a noun

 him is a pronoun

3. I don't understand anything! Oh! Now, I understand!

 Oh! is a conjunction

 Oh! is an interjection

4. Do you drive a sports car?

 drive is a noun

 drive is a verb

5. Please put the book on the table over there.


 on is a conjunction

 on is a preposition

6. She often visits her friends in Texas.

 often is an adverb

 often is an adjective

7. I want to go to the party, but I have to work until ten o'clock.

 but is an interjection

 but is a conjunction

8. That's a beautiful city.

 beautiful is an adjective

 beautiful is an adverb

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