vParts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech. part of speech Verb function or "job" action or state example words (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really I, you, he, she, some to, at, after, on, but and, but, when oh!, ouch!, hi!, well example sentences

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Noun

thing or person

This is my dog. He lives in myhouse. We live in London.

Adjective

describes a noun

My dog is big. I like big dogs.

Adverb

describes a verb, adjective or adverb

My dog eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly.

Pronoun Preposition

replaces a noun links a noun to another word joins clauses or sentences or words short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence

Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. We went to school on Monday.

Conjunction

I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

Interjection

* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub.com, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:
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Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech: o Lexical Verbs (work, like, run) o Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must) Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of beinsg categorized under Adjectives