8 Parts of Speech Noun any abstract or concrete entity; a person (police officer, Michael), place (coastline, London), thing

g (necktie, television), idea (happiness), or quality (bravery) Examples: pen, dog, work, music, town Pronoun any substitute for a noun or noun phrase Examples: I, you, he, she, some Adjective any qualifier of a noun Examples: a/an, the, some, good, interesting Verb any action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be) Examples: (to) be, have, do, like, work Adverb any qualifier of an adjective, verb, clause, sentence, or other adverb Examples: quickly, silently, well, badly, very Preposition any establisher of relation and syntactic context Examples: to, at, after, on, but Conjunction any syntactic connector Examples: and, but, for, or, nor Interjection any emotional greeting (or "exclamation") Examples: ah, alas, hey, ouch, er