Parts of English Speech in the form of Table
part of speech | function or "job" | example words | example sentences |
Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | Google.com is a web site. I like google.com. |
Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, Karachi, teacher, Karina, Faisal | This is my cat. She lives in my house. We live in Karachi. |
Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | My cat is small. I like small cats. |
Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My cat eats quickly. When she is very hungry, she eats really quickly. |
Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Reema is Pakistani. She is beautiful. |
Preposition | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to school on Tuesday. |
Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like cat but I don't like rats. |
Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know. |
Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:
Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
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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