aris of Speech | EnglishClub Page 1 of2 Parts of Speech Table (EnglishClub.com) This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech. You can also see these parts of speech examples {part of function or "job" example words —_| example sentences speech Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, | EnglishClub is a web site. 1 like, work, sing, can, | like EnglishClub. must [Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He lives in music, town, my house. We live in London, teacher, London. John Adjective | describes a noun a/an, the, 2, some, | have two dogs. My dogs good, big, red, well, | are big. I like big dogs. interesting Adverb describes a verb, quickly, silentiy, | My dog eats quickly. When adjective or adverb well, badly, very, he is very hungry, he eats really really quickly. Pronoun __ | replaces a noun 1, you, he, she, _| Tara is Indian. She is some beautiful. Preposition | links a noun to another | to, at, after, on, but |We went to school on word Monday. Conjunction | joins clauses or and, but, when T like dogs and I like cats. I sentences or words like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. Interjection | short exclamation, oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How sometimes inserted are you? Well, I don't know. into a sentence * Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At EnglishClub, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are: * Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech: » Lexical Verbs (work, like, run) iary Verbs (be, have, must) + Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives Parts of Speech Examples hitp tivanw.englishclub.com/grammariparts-of-speech_1 him sr2112014