Parts of Speech

A category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the
main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction,
and interjection.

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Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, English Club is a web site. I like English
work, sing, can, must Club.

Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, music, This is my dog. He lives in my house. We
town, London, live in London.
teacher, John

Adjective describes a noun good, big, red, well, My dogs are big. I like big dogs.
interesting

Determiner limits or "determines" a a/an, the, 2, some, I have two dogs and some rabbits.

noun many

Adverb describes a verb, quickly, silently, well, My dog eats quickly. When he

adjective or adverb badly, very, really is very hungry, he eats really quickly.

Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
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Preposition links a noun to another to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday.
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Conjunction joins clauses or and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I like
sentences or words cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like
cats.

Interjection short exclamation, oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I
sometimes inserted into don't know
a sentence

Auxiliary Verb

An auxiliary verb is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which

it appears, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually
accompany a main verb.

 An example is the verb have in the sentence I have finished my lunch. Here, the main verb
is finish, and the auxiliary have helps to express the perfect aspect. Some sentences contain a
chain of two or more auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs, helper verbs,
or (verbal) auxiliaries.

Lexical Verb

Lexical verb is also called as main verb or full verb. We can define it as
“Lexical verb is any verb that is not an auxiliary verb (helping verb)”. The verb
phrase used is a sentence is headed by the lexical verb.
lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs
except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express action, state, or other predicate meaning.
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 You
 He laughed.
 They ran.
 She danced in public.
 He googled my question to know the answer.