In grammar, a part of speech
is a linguistic category of words.
In English there are eight
parts of speech.
1. NOUN
A noun is a naming word. It
may be a name of a person, a place or a thing or an idea. It is also known as
“subject” in a sentence.
Example: a boy, John, a
village, Madurai, a car, a lion, freedom, happiness
2. PRONOUN
A pronoun is a word which is
used in the place of a noun or noun phrase.
Example: I, we, you, he,
she, it, they
3. VERB
A verb is a word used to
refer to an action or a state of being
Example: go, write, exist,
be, is, are, was
4. ADVERB
An adverb is used to modify
a verb, adjective and other adverbs. It also gives
More meaning to the verb of the
sentence in relation to manner, place, reason,
Consequence or result
Example: slowly, completely,
never, there, always...
5. ADJECTIVE
An adjective is a word used
to describe or modify a noun or pronoun.
Example: Good girl,
beautiful building, nice song,
6. PREPOSITION
Preposition is word used
before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when,
How and why an action takes
place
Example: in, above, to, for,
at, of, behind...
7. CONJUNCTION
Conjunctions are words used
to join words or clauses or sentences.
Example: and, but, So, If,
Though, Although, when...
8. INTERJECTION
Interjections are words used
to express sudden feeling or emotion.
Example: oh!, Alas, Oh My
God !
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