Parts of Speech

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Part of
# Function or "job" Example Words Example Sentences
Speech

1 Articles takes the place of the subject the, a, an That is a nice dress

(to) be, have, do, like, work,

2 Verb action or state EnglishClub is a web site. I like EnglishClub.
sing, can, must

pen, dog, work, music, town,

3 Noun thing or person This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.
London, teacher, John

a/an, the, two, some, good, big,

4 Adjective describes a noun I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.
red, well, interesting

describes a verb, adjective or quickly, silently, well, badly,

5 Adverb My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.
adverb very, really

6 Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.

7 Preposition links a noun to another word to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday.

joins clauses or sentences or I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like
8 Conjunction and, but, when
words cats.

short exclamation, sometimes

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