Every English word has its own part or category in the sentence to make sense in a certain order. There are
eight parts of speech in English. They are:
1. Nouns
Nouns are what you call a person, animal, plant, object, place, abstract stuff etc.
-> John, tiger, school, Mount Everest, honesty, time, pen, cow, Kuala Lumpur, thought, sweetness, friendship, length, speed.
2. Verbs
Verbs are the "action"words. Words that describe what you DO.
-> eat, think, write, cry, work, laugh, continue, throw, forget, take, buy, sell.
3. Pronouns
Pronouns are word that takes the place of a noun so that you don't have to repeat writing a person's name.
-> they, we, I, you, he, she, it.
4. Adjectives
Adjectives are words that describe a noun or a pronoun. Words that help tell us more about something or someone.
-> good, fine, red, rich, round, fast, cold, strong, tall, short, broken.
5. Adverbs
Unlike adjectives, adverbs are words that describes a verb. They tell us more about how somebody does something.
-> walk (verb)
quietly (adverb), come
here, fall
suddenly, answer
correctly, did
well,
never fail.
6. Prepositions
Prepositions are words that show relation between one thing and another.
-> against, in, on, above, under, below, from, to, around, since, during, except, until, over, among, across.
7. Conjunctions
Conjunctions are words that join words, phrases and clauses.
-> for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
* FANBOYS = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
8. Interjections
Interjections are words that expresses emotions and feelings.
-> Hello! Oh! Stop! Whut! Hi! Ah!
To clearly express the
eight parts of speech in a sentence, this is an example.
-> Hey! I just bought these apples and oranges from that huge supermarket.
~ Hey! (
Interjections) I (
Pronoun) just (
Adverb) bought (
Verb) these apples (
Noun) and (
Conjunction) oranges from (
Preposition) that huge (
Adjective) supermarket.