Parts of the speech

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PARTS OF THE SPEECH Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech, followed by an exercise. *

*TAKEN FOR : http://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar/the-partsof-speech


NOUN Word the names a person, place or thing

Sam

Bogota

Car


PRONOUN A word used in place of a noun they are divided in singular and plural and in first, second and third person

FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON

SINGULAR

I YOU

HE SHE IT

PLURAL

WE YOU THEY


VERB A word used that shows action, state or being


ADJECTIVE A word that describes or gives more information about the noun and pronoun


PREPOSITION A word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to another word


ADVERB A word that desctribes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb and tells where, how, when or to what extent


CONJUCTION A word that connects words or groups of words


INTEJECTION A word that expresses surprise or strong feeling


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