Parts of Speech
English Language
Afeisha Leshmore
There are eight Parts of Speech
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Nouns
Naming word
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Pronouns
Replaces a noun
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Adjectives
Describes something
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Adverbs
Describes a verb
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Prepositions
Show a relationship
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Conjunctions
Joins words or clauses
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Interjections
Expresses emotions
Nouns
Nouns
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A noun is a naming word. A noun is used to name
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Person
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Thing
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Animal
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Place
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Ideas
Nouns
Abstract nouns expresses ideas such as
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love
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happiness
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anger
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justice
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freedom
Pronouns
Pronouns
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A pronoun is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
to avoid repetition
Examples
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I, you, it, we, us, them, those,
Mary is tired. She wants to sleep
Mart is tired. Mary wants to sleep
I want her to dance with me.
Possessive pronouns
Mine, yours, hers,
This bike is my bike
This bike is mine.
Adjectives
Adjectives
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An adjective is a word that describes a
noun or noun phrase.
Example
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Sonic has blue fur and red and white
boots.
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The adjectives are placed before
the noun
Verbs
Verbs
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Verbs show an action or a state of
being. It can show what someone or
something is doing.
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Examples
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The girl is skipping.
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The boy is running.
Examples
Verbs
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Verbs can also show a state of being or existence.
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Example
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I am happy
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I feel sick
Verbs
Verbs and tenses
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Verbs have different tenses which tell us
WHEN an action happens or happened.
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Past tense:- I lived in Arima last year
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Present tense:- I lives in Port of Spain
right now.
Future tense:- I will live in Chaguanas
next year.
Types of verbs
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Auxiliary verbs
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Regular verbs
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Stative verbs
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Linking verbs
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Transitive verbs
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Intransitive verbs
…..and many more
Adverbs
Adverbs
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Adverbs describes or modifies a
verb, an adjective or another
adverb. I tell us how (often), where,
when or to what extent
Many adverbs end in “ly”
Example
Slowly, happily, quickly
very, always well
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Example
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I am speaking softly.
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Yesterday I ate my cake
Adverbs
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Adverbs of manner
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Adverbs of Frequency
They answer the question HOW?
Answers the question HOW OFTEN?
Slowly, loudly, easily,
Always, usually, never
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Adverbs of Time
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Adverbs of degree.
Answers the question WHEN?
This answers the question TO WHAT EXTENT?
Yesterday, now, soon,
Very, really, too, so, quite
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Adverbs of Place.
Answer the question WHERE?
Here, there, outside, above
Preposition
Prepositions
Prepositions shows the relationship
of a noun, or pronoun to another
word.
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Types of Prepositions
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Time
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Examples
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Place
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At, on, from, with, about, between.
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Relationship
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I left my keys on the table for you.
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I left my keys on the table for you.
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My birthday is in May
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Conjunctions
Conjunctions
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Conjunctions join words, ideas,
phrases or clauses together and
show how they are connected.
Examples and, or but, because, until,
if
I was hot and tired but I still finished
my work.
I listened to music while I was
running.
Interjections
Interjections
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Interjections is a word that expresses a string
feeling or emotion.
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It is a short exclamations
Examples
Ouch! Hey! Wow! Ugh!
Example
1.
Ouch! I just hit my foot.
2.
Wow, Did she really win the race!
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Some time a word can be in more than one part of speech depending on its
function.
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For example
Prices increased last year.
There is an increase in the number of followers.
Articles
Articles
Articles are used to help define nouns
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Examples
Example
I need a dictionary
an, a, the
1.
“A/an” are used to talk about nouns in
The dictionary needs to be in English.
general.
2.
“The” is used to talk about a specific
noun
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Article can function as an Adjective or
Determiner.
Determiners
Determiners
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A determiner is a word or phrase that appears before a noun.
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A determiner helps to identify things.
1.
Articles: a, an, the.
2.
Possessives. My, your, his.
3.
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those.
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Numbers : one, two, three, first, second, third.
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Quantifiers: some, many, few, others.
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Interrogatives: what, which, where.