Unit 2 | Module 1: English word classes 1

Words belong to different grammatical classes; some of the different word classes
(also called Parts of Speech) in English are as follows:

Nouns (things, places, people) – apple, Tom, France, children, love, table, sugar

Pronouns (usually used to replace nouns) – he, they, me, us, it, this, those, mine,
theirs

Adjectives (used to describe nouns) – pretty, impossible, terrible, dangerous, new

Verbs (also describe nouns, but in terms of what the noun is doing) – tell, run,
sent, singing, cry, e-mailing

Adverbs (used to describe verbs) – quickly, horribly, fast, usually, very,

Articles (used to determine or define nouns) – a, an, the

Quantifiers (used to measure nouns) – some, a little, any, few

Prepositions (used to show the relationship between two things, e.g. between two
nouns) – to, before, in, between, by

Conjunctions (used to join words or ideas) – because, and, but, therefore, so,
although

You may find that different grammar books categorise word classes differently, but
the above is a good idea of the main classes. Let’s look at each of them in a bit
more detail.