This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech.
part of speech | function or "job" | example words | example sentences |
Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | EnglishClub is a web site. I likeEnglishClub. |
Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. |
Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs. |
Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eatsquickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. |
Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Tara is Indian. Sheis beautiful. |
Preposition | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to schoolon Monday. |
Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like catsand dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. |
Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts!Hi! How are you?Well, I don't know. |
* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub, we use the traditional categorization of 8parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:
- Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:
- Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
- Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)
- Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives
Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech:
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noun | verb | verb |
John | is | working. |
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pronoun | verb | noun |
She | loves | animals. |
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noun | verb | adjective | noun |
Animals | like | kind | people. |
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noun | verb | noun | adverb |
Tara | speaks | English | well. |
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noun | verb | adjective | noun |
Tara | speaks | good | English. |
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pronoun | verb | preposition | adjective | noun | adverb |
She | ran | to | the | station | quickly. |
pron. | verb | adj. | noun | conjunction | pron. | verb | pron. |
She | likes | big | snakes | but | I | hate | them. |
Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech:
interjection | pron. | conj. | adj. | noun | verb | prep. | noun | adverb |
Well, | she | and | young | John | walk | to | school | slowly. |
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