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 Parts of Speech 

is a group of words that are used in a


certain way in a sentence.
1. Noun
2. Verb
3. Adverb
4. Adjective
5. Preposition
6. Conjunction
7. Interjection
8. Pronoun
9. Article
DEFINITIONS

1. Noun a word or lexical item denoting any abstract or concrete entity; a person (police
officer, Michael), place (coastline, London), thing (necktie, television), idea (happiness), or quality
(bravery)

2. Pronoun a substitute for a noun or noun phrase (them, he)


3. Adjective a qualifier of a noun or pronoun (big, brave)
4. Verb a word denoting an action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be)
5. Adverb a qualifier of an adjective, verb, clause, sentence, or other adverb (very, quite)
6. Preposition an establisher of relation and syntactic context (in, of)
7. Conjunction a syntactic connector (and, but)
8. Interjection an emotional greeting or exclamation (Hurrah, Alas)
9. Article a grammatical marker of definiteness (the) or indefiniteness (a, an).
Types


Noun

Verbs Nouns can simply be defined as a person

Verbs are the action words, implying that ("girl," "boy," "doctor"), place ("hospital,"
the subject of the sentence is doing "apartment," "school") or thing ("car," "ears,"
something. Verbs can come in two types: "pasta"). There are several different types of
main verbs and helping verbs. Main verbs nouns: proper nouns, which refer to specific
can stand on their own and not lose their entities ("California"); common nouns, which
meaning, while helping verbs cannot act refer to general entitles ("state"); countable
without a main verb. For instance, in "she nouns, which can occur in single and plural
is writing," "is" is the helping verb and forms ("apple"); uncountable nouns
"writing" is the main verb. While other ("clutter"); collective nouns, which refer to a
parts of speech do not change in form, group of something ("class," "family," "jury");
most verbs do change in form depending concrete nouns, which can be experienced
on the context of the sentence. For with one of your senses ("dog," "cinnamon");
instance, the word "write" has six forms: to and abstract nouns, which are theoretical
write, write, writes, wrote, writing and concepts ("freedom").
written.
Types
•Adverb •Pronoun
Adverbs modify or describe verbs. Many Pronouns are typically short words that
adverbs end with -ly, such as "smartly," can be used in place of a noun. There
"admiringly" and "faithfully." In the are several different types of
sentence "John acts immaturely," for pronouns: personal pronouns ("me,"
example, "immaturely" serves as the "you," "he," "she"), demonstrative
adverb that modifies "act." There are pronouns ("that," "those," "these"),
five types of adverbs: adverbs of time possessive pronouns ("mine," "hers,"
("next week"); adverbs of frequency "yours"), interrogative pronouns
("sometimes"), adverbs of degree ("what," "which," "who"), reflexive
("much"), adverbs of comment pronouns ("herself," "himself,"
("unfortunately") and adverbs of
"yourself") and reciprocal pronouns
manner ("gently")
("each other," "one another").
Types
•Preposition •Conjunction
A preposition is a word that forms a Conjunctions join words or parts of a
connection between a noun and sentence. Coordinating
pronoun and another part of the conjunctions include "and," "but,"
sentence. There are dozens of "or" and "yet." Subordinating
prepositions in the English language, conjunctions include "although,"
and all generally fall into one of three "unless" and"because."
types. Time prepositions include words
such as "after," "until" and "during."
Place prepositions indicate location
and include the words "around" and
"between." Direction prepositions
include words such as "under" and
"toward."
Types

Interjection  Article
 are short words that typically
An article is a word
hold little to no value in a
that is added with
sentence but tend to express
a noun to indicate
feeling. Unlike with other parts
of speech, there is only one the type of
type of interjections. Words refrence being
such as "ah," "oh" and "um" are made by noun
considered interjections.  Adjective
Quqlity of person or
thing e.g
strong,brave etc.

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