Parts of Speech

part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences

EnglishClub is a web
(to) be, have, do, like,
Verb action or state site. I like
work, sing, can, must
EnglishClub.

pen, dog, work, This is my dog. He

Noun thing or person music, town, London, lives in my house. We
teacher, John live in London.

good, big, red, well, My dogs are big. I

Adjective describes a noun
interesting like big dogs.

limits or a/an, the, 2, some, I have two dogs and

Determiner
"determines" a noun many some rabbits.

My dog eats quickly.

describes a verb, quickly, silently, well, When he is very
Adverb
adjective or adverb badly, very, really hungry, he eats really
quickly.
 I, you, he, she, Tara is Indian. She is
Pronoun replaces a noun
some beautiful.
links a noun to We went to school
Preposition to, at, after, on, but
another word on Monday.
I like dogs and I like
joins clauses or cats. I like cats and
Conjunction and, but, when
sentences or words dogs. I like dogs but
I don't like cats.
short exclamation, Ouch! That hurts!
Interjection sometimes inserted oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Hi! How are you?
into a sentence Well, I don't know.
 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 adjectives,
instead of being a separate part of speech.
 Parts of Speech Examples

Here are some sentences made with different

English parts of speech:
verb noun verb noun verb verb
Stop! John works. John is working.

pronoun verb noun noun verb adjective noun

She loves animals. Animals like kind people.

noun verb noun adverb noun verb adjective noun

Tara speaks English well. Tara speaks good English.
 pronoun verb preposition determiner noun adverb
She ran to the station quickly.

interjection pron. conj. det. adj. noun verb prep. noun adverb
Well, she and my young John walk to school slowly.

Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech:

pron. verb adj. noun conjunction pron. verb pron.

She likes big snakes but I hate them.
 verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjunction

word part of speech example

noun My work is easy.
work
verb I work in London.
John came but Mary didn't
conjunction
but come.
preposition Everyone came but Mary.
adjective Are you well?
well adverb She speaks well.
interjection Well! That's expensive!
noun We ate in the afternoon.
afternoon
noun acting as adjective We had afternoon tea.