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Parts Of Speech Table

Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech.

Part of speech

Function or “job”

Example words

Example sentences

Verb

Action or state

(to) be, have, do, like,

Garfield is a cat.

work, sing, can, must

I like Garfield.

Noun

Thing or person

pen, dog, work, music,

This is my dog.

town, London, teacher,

He lives in my house.

John

We live in London.

Adjectives

Describes a noun

a/an, the, 23, some, good,

My dog is big.

big, red, interesting

I like big dogs.

Adverb

Describes a verb,

quickly, silently, well,

My dog eats quickly.

adjective or adverb

badly, very, really

When he is very hungry,

he eats really quickly.

Pronoun

Replaces a noun

I, you, he, she, some

Tara is my sister; she is

beautiful.

Preposition

Links a noun to

to, at, after, on, but

We went to the park on

another word

Monday.

Conjunction

Joins clauses or

and, but, when, for, nor,

I like dogs and cats.

sentences or words

or, yet, so, since,

I like cars, but I don’t like

driving.

Interjection

Short exclamation,

Oh! Ouch! Hi! Well.

Ouch! That hurts!

sometimes inserted

Hi! How are you?

into a sentence

Well, I don’t know.

Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:

 Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)

o I like Vampire Diaries.

 Auxiliary Verbs or Helping Verbs (be, have, must)

o I have watched it.

 Auxiliary verbs are always followed by another verb. Some auxiliary verbs can

become lexical verbs if they are not used with other verbs, such as:

o I have seven pairs of shoes.

 Determiners (a, the, every, this, that) modify

and determine the kind of reference a noun

or noun group has.

 They may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized

under Adjectives.

o These apples are rotten.

Parts Of Speech Table

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