GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH

LANGUAGE 1
Parts of Speech Grammar
Parts of
Speech Definition Examples

A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or

Noun things, or to name a particular one of these dog, city, love

I, you, he, she, it,

Pronoun A word that is used in place of a noun we, they

run, be, have, do,

Verb A word used to describe an action, occurrence, or state of being take

blue, happy, tall,

Adjective A word that describes a noun or pronoun friendly

quickly, well, very,

Adverb A word used to describe a verb, adjective, or other adverb here

A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate

Conjunction words in the same clause and, but, or, yet, so

A word used to show the relationship between a noun or

Preposition pronoun and other words in a sentence in, on, at, with, by

oh, wow, ouch,

Interjection A word or phrase used to express strong emotion hurray