The Eight Parts of Speech in English (PDF) ?

The Eight Parts of Speech in English (PDF)
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In this lesson we are going to give you a quick introduction to the eight parts of speech. These are
noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
A part of speech is just the name given to a word based on the function that it does in a sentence.
Learning parts of speech is necessary for understanding the correct definition of a word and
accelerate your study of English grammar.
You can think parts of speech just like job titles. Just like a person can be a soldier, a teacher or a
baker – a word can be a noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or
interjection depending on the job that it does in a sentence.
1. NOUN
noun is a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, animals,
places, things, ideas.
Nouns are separated into common nouns and proper nouns.
Common nouns are used for people, animals, places, or things.
Example: granny, mother, river, mountain, hotel, taxi, fox, camel.
He is an artist.
Tom hates bananas.
I love my mother.
Her father is a doctor.
Proper nouns are names for particular people, places or things. They always begin with a capital
letter.
Example: Ali Baba, Harry Potter, Beethoven, Turkish, British, Malay, Hong Kong, India, The United
Kingdom,the Pacific Ocean, the Eiffel Tower, Father’s Day, Ramadan, Halloween.
☛The days of the week and months of the year are also proper nouns.
December is the last month of the year.

Sunday is the last day of the week.
Nouns can be singular or plural, concrete or abstract.
When you are talking about one person, animal, place, or thing, use a singular noun.
Example: a ship, a teacher, a river, an apple, an umbrella.
When you are talking about two or more people, animals, places, or things, use plural nouns. Most
nouns are made plural by adding -s at the end.
Example: ships, teachers, rivers, apples, umbrellas
Some exceptions:
bus-buses. glass-glasses. watch-watches. brush-brushes.
butterfly-butterflies. baby-babies. lady-ladies. story-stories.
☛Nouns show possession by adding ‘s.

☛Tom’s car.
☛Car’s key.
2. PRONOUN
A pronoun is a word that can replace a noun in a sentence.
Personal Pronouns: The words I, you, he, she, it, we and they are called personal pronouns.
He is a nice guy.
You are welcome.
Possessive Pronouns: There words mine, yours, hers, his, its, theirs, ours, yours, theirs are
called possessive pronouns.
This car is mine.
Time is yours.
Reflexive Pronouns: The words myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves,
yourselves and themselves are called reflexive pronouns.
Maryam has hurt herself.
Don’t cut yourself.
Demonstrative Pronouns: The words this, these, that and those are called demonstrative
pronouns.
This is my car.
These are my flowers.
Interrogative Pronouns: The words who, whom, whose, what and which are called
interrogative pronouns. We ask questions by using these pronouns.
Who is she talking to?
Which do you prefer?
3. VERB
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of
the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen, run, eat.
Most verbs are action words. Verbs shows you what people, animals or things are doing.
Verbs can show actions or they can show states or situations.Those are the two types of verbs in
English.
☛I am eating. – verb (eat) shows an action.

☛I am a student. verb (to be) shows a state.
There is a main verb and sometimes one or more helping verbs.
Birds can fly. ‘Fly‘ is the main verb, ‘can‘ is the helping verb.
☛Verbs also change and take different forms to show tenses.
I drink a lot of water ☛ I drank a lot of water yesterday.
4. ADJECTIVE
An adjective is a describing word. Adjective describes a noun or a pronoun.
The red carpet.

Deep thoughts.
A busy street.
She is beautiful today.
☛Adjectives have different endings. Some adjectives end in -ful or -less.
careful, colorful, harmful, faithful, hopeful.

careless, colorless, harmless, faithless, hopeless.
☛Some adjectives end in -y.
a noisy room, a rainy day, a dirty carpet.
☛Some adjectives end in -ive.
a creative person, an active hour, talkative person.
☛Some adjectives end in -ing.
a smiling face, loving parents, a caring doctor.
5. ADVERB
A word that describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a sentence. It tells you
about an action, or the way something is done.
☛A lot of adverbs end in -ly.
We are happily married.

Tom calls me regularly.
Suddenly, she knows. It’s love!
☛Many adverbs are formed by adding -ly to an adjective.
How to make adjective to adverb

Easy word transformation list
6. PREPOSITION
A preposition is a word that connects one thing with another, showing how they are
related.
Prepositions tell us about time, position or place.
Some examples of prepositions are words like ‘in,’ ‘at,’ ‘on,’ ‘of,’ ‘to,’ ‘from.’
She is in love.
Book was on the table.
I am from France.
He is calling to you.
Where are you at?
Learn more about prepositions here.
7. CONJUNCTION
A conjunction is a linking word that used to connect clauses or sentences. For example
and, or, but, as, if.
Conjunctions are used to connect words, phrases, and clauses together.
a teacher and students.

a male or female?
☛Words such as before, after, as, when, while, until, since, are conjunctions of time.
Maryam could play guitar before she was four.
She always brush her teeth after eating her meal.
There are four categories of conjunctions:
Coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

Correlative conjunctions: both/and, either/or, neither/nor, not only/but, whether/or.
Subordinating conjunctions: after, although, as, as if, as long as, as much as, as soon as, as
though, because, before, by the time, even if, even though, if, in order that, in case, in the
event that, now that, once, only, only if, provided that, since, so, supposing, that, than, though,
till, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, whether or not, while.
Conjunctive adverbs: however, therefore.
8.INTERJECTION
An interjection is a word that expresses an emotion, sudden, strong feeling such as
surprise, pain, or pleasure.
☛It is often followed by an exclamation point.
Cheers!
Ouch!
Oh my God!
Oh dear!
Good luck!
Help!
Gosh!
Hey!
Look out!
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Nouns are separated into common nouns and proper nouns.

Common nouns are used for people, animals, places, or things.

Example: granny, mother, river, mountain, hotel, taxi, fox, camel.

December is the last month of the year.

Nouns can be singular or plural, concrete or abstract.

Example: a ship, a teacher, a river, an apple, an umbrella.

Example: ships, teachers, rivers, apples, umbrellas

☛Nouns show possession by adding ‘s.

☛I am eating. – verb (eat) shows an action.

There is a main verb and sometimes one or more helping verbs.

☛Verbs also change and take different forms to show tenses.

I drink a lot of water ☛ I drank a lot of water yesterday.

The red carpet.

careful, colorful, harmful, faithful, hopeful.

☛Some adjectives end in -y.

a noisy room, a rainy day, a dirty carpet.

☛Some adjectives end in -ive.

a creative person, an active hour, talkative person.

☛Some adjectives end in -ing.

a smiling face, loving parents, a caring doctor.

☛A lot of adverbs end in -ly.

We are happily married.

☛Many adverbs are formed by adding -ly to an adjective.

How to make adjective to adverb

Prepositions tell us about time, position or place.

Learn more about prepositions here.

Conjunctions are used to connect words, phrases, and clauses together.

a teacher and students.

There are four categories of conjunctions:

Coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

☛It is often followed by an exclamation point.

Parts of Speech in English PDF

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