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The 9 Parts of Speech

Nouns refer to people, places, things or ideas and can take different roles in a sentence. Pronouns stand in for nouns and refer to people. Verbs express actions or states of being. Adjectives describe nouns, specifying qualities. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, specifying manner, time, place or degree. Prepositions show spatial and temporal relations between words. Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses. Articles and determiners modify nouns and specify or identify them. Interjections express emotions and reactions.

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The 9 Parts of Speech

Nouns refer to people, places, things or ideas and can take different roles in a sentence. Pronouns stand in for nouns and refer to people. Verbs express actions or states of being. Adjectives describe nouns, specifying qualities. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, specifying manner, time, place or degree. Prepositions show spatial and temporal relations between words. Conjunctions join words, phrases or clauses. Articles and determiners modify nouns and specify or identify them. Interjections express emotions and reactions.

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GOVT POST GRADUATE COLLEGE MANDIAN ABBOTTABAD

The 9 Parts of Speech

Read about each part of speech below and get started practicing identifying each.

Nouns  are a person, place, thing, or idea. They can take on a myriad of roles in a sentence,
from the subject of it all to the object of an action. They are capitalized when they're the
official name of something or someone, called  proper nouns  in these cases. Examples:  pirate,
Caribbean, ship, freedom, Captain Jack Sparrow.
Pronoun
Pronouns  stand in for nouns in a sentence. They are more generic versions of nouns that refer
only to people. Examples:  I, you, he, she, it, ours, them, who, which, anybody, ourselves.
Verb
Verbs  are action words that tell what happens in a sentence. They can also show a sentence
subject's state of being (is,  was).  Verbs change form based on tense (present, past) and count
distinction (singular or plural). Examples:  sing, dance, believes, seemed, finish, eat, drink, be,
became
Adjective
Adjectives  describe nouns and pronouns. They specify which one, how much, what kind, and
more. Adjectives allow readers and listeners to use their senses to imagine something more
clearly. Examples:  hot, lazy, funny, unique, bright, beautiful, poor, smooth.
Adverb
Adverbs  describe verbs, adjectives, and even other adverbs. They specify when, where, how,
and why something happened and to what extent or how often. Examples:  softly, lazily,
often, only, hopefully, softly, sometimes.
Preposition
Prepositions  show spacial, temporal, and role relations between a noun or pronoun and the
other words in a sentence. They come at the start of a  prepositional phrase, which contains a
preposition and its object. Examples:  up, over, against, by, for, into, close to, out of, apart
from.
Conjunction
Conjunctions  join words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence. There are coordinating,
subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Examples:   and, but, or, so, yet, with.
Articles and Determiners
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Articles and determiners  function like adjectives by modifying nouns, but they are different
than adjectives in that they are necessary for a sentence to have proper syntax. Articles and
determiners specify and identify nouns, and there are indefinite and definite articles.
Examples:  articles:  a, an, the; determiners:  these, that, those, enough, much, few, which,
what.
Some traditional grammars have treated  articles  as a distinct part of speech. Modern
grammars, however, more often include articles in the category of  determiners, which
identify or quantify a noun. Even though they modify nouns like adjectives, articles are
different in that they are essential to the proper syntax of a sentence, just as determiners are
necessary to convey the meaning of a sentence, while adjectives are optional.
Interjection
Interjections  are expressions that can stand on their own or be contained within sentences.
These words and phrases often carry strong emotions and convey reactions. Examples:  ah,
whoops, ouch,  yabba  dabba  do
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