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The document explains the concept of parts of speech in English, categorizing words based on their functions in sentences. It identifies eight parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, and illustrates how the same word can serve different roles depending on its context. Additionally, it groups the parts of speech into four categories to aid in understanding their functions.

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The document explains the concept of parts of speech in English, categorizing words based on their functions in sentences. It identifies eight parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, and illustrates how the same word can serve different roles depending on its context. Additionally, it groups the parts of speech into four categories to aid in understanding their functions.

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PARTS OF SPEECH

What do words do in a sentence?

• In a sentence a word can do a particular


job. For example;
• Oops! I carelessly left my old but useful
book in classroom.
• In the sentence above, each of the words
can be classified as particular part of
speech according to the work it is doing in
the sentence – e.g.
Oops! Interjection
I Pronoun
Carelessly Adverb
left verb
my Pronoun
old Adjective
but Conjunction
useful Adjective

book Noun
in Preposition

classroom Noun
• Note that a word can do different jobs in a
sentence, therefore its part of speech will
depend on the particular work the word is
doing in that particular sentence. For
example:
i. My best colour is blue.
ii. Where is your blue pen?
• In sentence 1 blue is doing the work of a
noun. In sentence 2 blue is doing the work of
an adjective. Note that the same word can do
different jobs.
The eight parts of speech
• In English there are eight parts of speech.
These are: nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
verbs, adverbs, preposition, conjunctions
and interjections. It becomes very easy to
remember the parts of speech if you
group them like this:
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

Nouns Verbs Prepositions Interjections

Pronouns Adverbs Conjunctions

Adjectives
• Group 1 consists of words that are names
of people, ideas, and things, and words
that describe the things that are named.
• Group 2 consists of words that denote
actions, states, and conditions of being
and words that modify those actions,
states and conditions of being.
• Group 3 consists of connective words that
link words (or group of words) to other
words (or group of words)
• Group 4 consists of words that often
express a mood but having no grammatical
connection or function in the sentence.
• Thus, to identify a word as a part of speech
is to describe the work that it is doing in a
sentence.

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