Parts of Speech Table part of speech Determiner Noun function or "job" defines (or not) the noun names

Thing, person, place, animal, idea describes a noun example words The, a, an pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, interesting (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really to, at, after, on and, but, when example sentences This is a nice house. Give me the book! This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. My dog is big. I like big dogs.

Adjective

Verb

shows action or state describes a verb, adjective or adverb links a noun to another word joins clauses or sentences or words replaces a noun

EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com. My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. We went to school on Monday. I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.

Adverb

Preposition Conjunction

Pronoun

I, yours, he, she, him, herself

* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. Here, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:

Wh-question words may be treated as another part of speech. Exclamation expressions or interjections may be treated as a separate part of speech.

Parts of Speech Examples

Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech: noun John verb works. noun animals. noun verb John is noun Animals verb working. verb like adjective kind noun people.

verb Stop!

pronoun She

verb loves

noun Tara

verb

noun

adverb well.

noun Tara

verb speaks noun

adjective good adverb

noun English.

speaks English verb ran

pronoun She

preposition determiner to the

station quickly.

pron. verb She

adj. big

noun snakes

conjunction but

pron. I

verb hate

pron. them.

likes

Here is a sentence that contains every part of speech: conj. and adj. young noun John verb walk prep. to noun school adverb slowly.

interjection pron. Well, she

PRACTICE A. Every word has a job, or part of speech. Choose and UNDERLINE the correct word for its part of speech. Example: 1. Choose the verb......................apple ate on

2. Choose the noun.....................death 3. Choose the interjection.............hey 4. Choose the conjunction............the 5. Choose the adjective...............Gandalf 6. Choose the pronoun................thee 7. Choose the adverb..................broke 8. Choose the preposition............without 9. Choose the verb.....................chair 10. Choose the noun....................sword 11. Choose the interjection............and 12. Choose the conjunction............was 13. Choose the adjective...............wow 14. Choose the pronoun.................you 15. Choose the adverb................dwarf

deadly Bilbo so

run at ring ride

precious is elf dusty eliminate pierce only Frodo and

tomorrow travel Hobbit silently wow because hi hello mountain into quest rough hole soon

dangerous help quietly

16. Choose the preposition.............height 17. Choose the noun....................seek 18. Choose the verb.....................listen 19. Choose the article...................in 20. Choose the preposition............climb

empty carefully summer a around

B. Complete the chart with examples for each part of speech. Use a dictionary if you want.

DETERMINERS

NOUNS

ADJECTIVES

VERBS

ADVERBS

PARTS OF SPEECH

PREPOSITIONS

CONJUNCTIONS

PRONOUNS

C. Classify the parts of speech in the following sentences.

Example: John sleeps. NOUN-VERB a. Jill is eating. b. Jack will arrive next week. c. I like rice. d. She loves her job. e. Hes eating an orange. f. He is funny. g. The workers are lazy. h. Karen seems angry. i. Jim is here. j. Flowers are everywhere. k. No one was there. l. She is my mom. m. The men are doctors. n. Mr. Jones is the teacher.