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 speech function or "job" example words example sentences Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must nglish!lub is a web site. "like nglish!lub. Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, music, town, #ondon, teacher, $ohn This is my dog. %e lives in my house. &e live inLondon. Adjectie describes a noun a'an, the, (, some, good, big, red, well, interestin g " have two dogs. )y dogs are big. " like big dogs. Aderb describes a verb, ad*ective or adverb +uickly, silently, well, badly, very, )y dog eats !uickl". &hen he is er" hungry, he eatsreall" +uickly. really Pronoun replaces a noun ", you, he, she, some Tara is "ndian. She is beautiful. Prepositio n links a noun to another word to, at, after, on, but &e went to school on)ond ay. #onjunctio n *oins clauses or sentences or words and, but, when " like dogs and " like cats. " like cats and dogs. " like dogs but " don,t like cats. $nterjectio n short e-clamatio n, sometimes inserted into a sentence oh., ouch., hi., well %uch. That hurts. &i. %ow are you/ 'ell, " don,t know. * 0ome grammar sources categori1e nglish into ( or )* parts of speech. 2t nglish!lub, we use the traditional categori1ation of + parts of speech. -amples of other categori1ations are3 4erbs may be treated as two different parts of speech3 o Lexical Verbs (work, like, run) o Auxiliar" Verbs (be, have, must) ,eterminers may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categori1ed under 2d*ectives Parts of Speech -xamples %ere are some sentences made with different nglish parts of speech3 erb 0top.
noun erb $ohn works.
noun erb erb $ohn is working.
pronou n erb noun 0he love s animals .
noun er b adjecti e noun 2nimal s like kind people .
nou n erb noun ader b Tara speak s nglis h well.
nou n erb adjecti e noun Tara speak s good nglis h.
pronoun erb preposition adjectie noun aderb 0he ran to the station +uickly.
pron. erb adj. noun conjunctio n pron. erb pron. 0he likes big snakes but " hate them. %ere is a sentence that contains every part of speech3 interjecti pro con adj. nou er pre nou ader on n. j. n b p. n b &ell, she and youn g $ohn wal k to scho ol slowly . 'ords with /ore than %ne 0ob )any words in nglish can have more than one *ob, or be more than one part of speech. 5or e-ample, 6work6 can be a verb and a noun7 6but6 can be a con*unction and a preposition7 6well6 can be an ad*ective, an adverb and an inter*ection. "n addition, many nouns can act as ad*ectives. To analy1e the part of speech, ask yourself3 6&hat job is this word doing in this sentence/6 "n the table below you can see a few e-amples. 8f course, there are more, even for some of the words in the table. "n fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word 6but6 has si- *obs to do3 verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and con*uction. word part of speech example work noun )y work is easy. verb " work in #ondon. but con*unction $ohn came but )ary didn,t come. preposition veryone came but )ary. well ad*ective 2re you well/ adverb 0he speaks well. inter*ection 'ell. That,s e-pensive. afternoon noun &e ate in the afternoon. noun acting as ad*ective &e had afternoon tea. Source: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech_1.htm