Parts of Speech

1.Noun - is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.

Example:

• The cat sat on the mat.
• Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week.
• Cleanliness is next to godliness.
• George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.

2. Verbs - A verb is an action word or doing word.

Example:

James ran quickly


3. Pronoun - A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.

Example:

• Who says so?
• That reminds me of something.
• He looked at them.
• I love you.

4. Adjective - is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent.


Example:

That is a tall building.


5. Adverb - It is any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including numbers),clauses, sentence and other adverbs, except for nouns; modifiers of nouns are primarily determiners and adjectives.

Example:

- The waves came in quickly over the rocks.

6. Conjunction - a conjunction is a word that combines 2 parts of a sentence.

• for: indicates reason (used as a synonym of 'because'), or purpose
• and: used to connect words, phrases, or clauses
• nor: presents an alternate negative idea
• but: indicates a contrast or exception
• or: presents opinions, alternates, or substitutes for ideas of equal importance
• yet: connects ideas that follow logically and are contrary
• so: shows the consequences of related ideas

7. Preposition - A preposition is a word that shows relationships between words.

Example:

The cat sleeps on the sofa


8. Interjection - A interjection is the word that expresses Emotions. An Interjection often starts a sentence but it can be contained within a sentence or can stand alone.

Example:

Oh, Wow, Hurray, uhh, ah, and eh.