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Grade 2 - English Language
Parts of Speech
The eight parts of speech are: Noun, Adjective, Pronouns, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and
Interjection.
1. Nouns: naming words are called nouns. Nouns can be the names of persons, places, animals and
things.
Examples: father, girl, Jan, garden, garage, tiger, computer, bottle, pillow
2. Verbs: doing or action words are called verbs.
Examples:
Main verbs: sit, stand, walk, study, write, eat, drink, play, laugh.
Helping verbs: 'Do' and 'have' are also verbs but they are not main verbs. They are called helping
verbs.
3. Pronoun: words used instead of nouns are called pronouns.
Examples: he, she, they, it I, you, we, him, me, us, them
4. Adjective: describing words are called adjectives. They describe a noun.
Examples: a fat man, a deep well, a blind bat, an old car.
5.Adverbs: words that describe verbs or adjectives are called adverbs.
Examples: The boy ran very fast. ('fast' is an adjective and 'very' describes it)
He spoke loudly.('spoke' is a verb and 'loudly' describes it)
6. Prepositions: position words are called prepositions.
Examples: There is no ink in my pen.
I need a refill for my pen.
I shall buy one on Monday at 5 o'clock.
7. Conjunction: joining words are called conjunction.
The sun shine during the day and the stars come out at night.
Fish can swim but birds cannot.
The mice will play when the cat is away.
8.Interjections: are words used for showing surprise or any other strong feeling.
Examples: alas!, oh!, ah!, wow!, Gosh!, Hurray!
Directions: Name the parts of speech of the underlined words.
Question 1: Bob is drinking water from the fountain.
adjective
verb
noun
Question 2: The computer was not hooked to the
power supply.
pronoun
noun
verb
Question 3: There was an old car in the garage.
Question 4: There is no ink in my pen.
noun
conjunction
adjective
preposition
pronoun
interjection
Question 5: The boy ran very fast.
Question 6: We reached the station after the train had
left.
noun
preposition
verb
interjection
adverb
conjunction
Question 7: He is a teacher.
Question 8: Jenny went to school in the morning.
noun
pronoun
verb
verb
pronoun
noun
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