 Parts

of Speech explain
how a word is used in a
sentence.
 There are eight main parts
of the speech as we known
as word classes

Anybody knows?
 NOUNS
 PRONOUNS
 ADJECTIVES
 VERBS
 ADVERBS
 PREPOSITIONS
 CONJUNCTIONS
 INTERJECTIONS
 Prepositions can be divided into prepositions
of time, prepositions of place, etc.

 Nouns can be divided into proper nouns,

common nouns, concrete nouns, etc.

 A word can sometimes be in more than one

part of speech. It depends on the sentence
 A noun is the name of a person, place, thing
or idea.
 The function is for Naming word

 Examples of nouns: George, Chicago, Pillow,

cat, lecturer, city, happiness, hope.

Example in a sentence:
George lives in Chicago. A lecturer uses a pen
and a paper to write letters.
 There are some kinds of Noun

 They are:
 Proper Noun, Common Noun, Singular
Noun, Plural Noun, Countable Noun,
Uncountable Noun, etc.
 Proper noun is a noun related to names.
Used to a Specific (individual) person, place
or thing.
 Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.

 Name of country
 Name of country
 Name of province
 Name of place
 Name of person, etc.
 Common nouns are words used to name
general items rather than specific ones

Examples:
Girl, city, animal, house, food.
 It refers to people or things that exist
physically and that at least one of the
senses can detect.

 Examples:
 Dog, tree, apple, moon, sock
 It has no physical existence. It refers to
ideas, emotions and concepts you cannot
see, touch, hear, smell or taste.

 Examples:
 Love, time, fear, freedom
 The boy had a baseball in his hand.
 My horse prefers to wear an English saddle.
 That cat never seems to tire of jumping in and
out of the box.

The boys were throwing baseballs back and forth

between bases.
Our horses are much happier wearing lightweight
English saddles.
Those cats never seem to tire of chasing one another in
and out of those boxes.
 countable nouns are individual people,
animals, places, things, or ideas which can be
counted.

 Uncountable nouns are not individual objects,

so they cannot be counted.
 A pronoun is used in place of a noun or noun
phrase to avoid repetition.

 The function is for replacing a noun

 They are: I, you, we, they, she, he, it, me, us,
them, her, him, this, that, these, those.

Example in sentences:
Dede is tired. He wants to sleep.
 An adjective describes, modifies or gives
more information about a noun or pronoun.

 The function is for describing word.

 Examples: big, happy, yellow, old, funny, five.

 Examples in a sentence:
 The cute girl wears a pink hat.
 A verb shows an action or state of being. A
verb shows what someone or something is
doing.
 verb is an action word
 Examples: go, stand, speak, play, eat, have,
like, are, is.

 Example in a sentence:
I like English.
 Verbs divided into two types. They are:

 Transitive verb and intransitive verb

 Transitive verb is a verb that needs an object

in sentences.
 Examples: eat, drink, have, play, climb, etc.

 Intransitive verb is an independent verb. It

means it doesn’t need any object.
 Examples: sit, stand, sleep, run, walk, jump.
 Verbs divides into three forms.
 They are infinitive verb, past verb, and past
participle verb.

 Infinitive verb is a base form of verb

 Past verb is the second form of verb. It used in

the past time.

 Past participle is the third form of verb. It used in

present perfect tense and past perfect tense.
 Regular verb is a verb that has stable form. It
can be changed in past simple tense by
adding suffix –d or –ed.
 Examples: walked, received, called.

 Irregular verb is a verb change from the base

form.
 Examples: eat-ate-eaten, see-saw-seen,
sing-sang-sung, go-went-gone,
read-read-read.
 An adverb describes or modifies a verb, an
adjective or another adverb.
 It tells how, where, when, how often or to
what extent.

 Many adverbs end in-ly

 Examples: slowly, quietly, quickly, very,
always, never, too, tomorrow, here.

Examples in a sentence:
I am always busy on Mondays.
I ate my breakfast quickly.
 Adverbs divided into:
1. Adverbs of time. Examples: tomorrow,
today, at 9 o’clock, now, yesterday, two
weeks ago, in the morning, etc.
2. Adverbs of place. Examples: in the kitchen,
at school, on the table, under the roof, etc.
3. Adverbs of manner. Examples: by
motorcycle, by car, on foot, etc.
4. Adverbs of Frequency. Examples: always,
usually, often, sometimes, etc.
 A preposition shows the relationship of a
noun or pronoun to another word. They can
indicate time, place, or relationship.

 Examples: at, on, in, from near, between,

about, under.

 Example in a sentence:
 I left my keys on the table for you.
 A conjunction joins two words, ideas, phrases
or clauses together in a sentence and shows
how they are connected.

 Examples: and, or, but, because, so, yet,

unless, since, if.

 Example in a sentence:
 I felt hot and exhausted but I could finish the
marathon.
 An interjection is a word or phrase that
expresses a strong feeling or emotion. It is a
short exclamation.

 Interjection is expressive word

 Examples: Ouch! Wow! Great! Help! Oh! Hey!
Hi!

 Example in a sentence:
 Wow! I passed my English test. Great!- Ouch!
That hurt.
 An article is used before a noun. These are
divided into definite (“the”) and indefinite
(“an, an”).

 Articles help define nouns.

 Examples: a, an, the.

 Example in sentences:
I need a dictionary. The dictionary need to be
in English.