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Parts of Speech
Nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, place, a
thing, or an idea.
Examples:
Person: uncle, baby, John
Thing: car, door, book
Idea: truth, beauty
Verbs
A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of
being.
Examples:
The students did their homework.
Studying grammar rocks :)
I live in Tallinn.
Adjectives
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun by
limiting its meaning.
Examples:
romantic story
many ideas
Scottish wool
Adverbs
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an
adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning
more specific. Adverbs modify by answering the
questions “when”, “where”, “how”.
Examples:
She often drinks tea with milk.
Jack carefully polished his car.
Pronouns
A pronoun is a word that can take the place of a
noun.
Examples:
I, me, their, myself,
these, each other
Prepositions
A preposition is a word that shows the relationship
of a noun or pronoun to some other word in a
sentence.
Examples:
above, behind, during, from, since, through, without
Conjunctions
A conjunction is a word that joins single words or
groups of words.
Examples:
or, but, because, while, although
Interjections
An interjection is a word or phrase that expresses
emotion or exclamation.
Examples:
wow, ouch, hey, hello, oops
Articles
Articles are used to indicate nouns and to specify
their application.
Examples:
a / an – indefinite article
the – definite article
I bought myself a guitar.
He can play the guitar very well.
Numerals
A numeral is a word that represents a number or
shows the order of objects through counting.
Examples:
three, one hundred, fifth
A POEM
Every name is called a noun,
As field and fountain, street and town;
In place of noun the pronoun stands
As he and she can clap their hands;
The adjective describes a thing,
As magic wand and bridal ring;
The verb means action, something done To read, to write, to jump, to run;
How things are done, the adverbs tell,
As quickly, slowly, badly, well;
The preposition shows relation,
As in the street, or at the station;
Conjunctions join, in many ways,
Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase;
The interjection cries out, ‘Hark!
I need an exclamation mark!‘
Through poetry, we learn how each
Of these make up the parts of speech
Parts of Speech
Identify all the parts of speech in the following
sentence:
Yesterday we went to the cinema because
John had luckily received two free tickets.
Key 1
yesterday - adverb
we - pronoun
went - verb
to - preposition
the - article
cinema - noun
because - conjunction
John - noun
had - verb
luckily - adverb
received - verb
two - numeral
free - adjective
tickets - noun
Key 2
Noun: cloud, interest
Verb: irritate, organise
Adjective: strong, funny
Adverb: seriously, angrily
Preposition: under, during
Conjunction: although, if
Interjection: wow, hello
Numeral: thirty, fourth
Pronoun: herself
Article: the