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English
Parts of speech

Parts of Speech

• There are eight parts of speech.

Here are some of their highlights.
Nouns Pronouns
Adjectives Articles
Verbs Adverbs
Prepositions Conjunctions
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Nouns

• A noun is a name.
• A noun is the name of a person, a place, a
thing, an idea, an activity, a feeling.

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NOUNS

Pronouns
• They are the words that substitute
the nouns.
• The personal or subject pronouns go
before the verb.
• The object pronouns go after the verb
or a preposition.

The chef grilled the meat.

He grilled it.

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Adjectives
• Adjectives are words that talk about the
attributes of a person, place, thing, or
activity. In other words, adjectives modify
nouns.
• Nouns can work as adjectives modifying
another noun. For example: the guest
house (a house for guests) or the house
guest (a person who is visiting)

Adjectives
Adjectives usually go before the noun
they modify.
The sunny day invited to have a picnic.
adjective noun

Adjectives can come after a linking verb.

The day is sunny.

Verbs
Verbs refer to an action (do, break, walk,
etc.) or a state (be, like, own).
• Examples
He does exercise every other day.
She owns a house in Alabama.
All sentences must contain one.

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Verbs: Modals

• Modal verbs are used to express ideas of s

possibility, intention, obligation and
necessity.

CAN, COULD, WILL, WOULD, SHALL,

SHOULD, MAY, and MIGHT are some
examples.

Prepositions
• A preposition is a word that links a noun,
a pronoun or a gerund to other concepts
in the sentence.

• They can have a variety of meanings:

• Direction- We are going TO the mall.
• Location- The car is IN the garage.
• Time- They will come home AFTER the
concert.
• Possession- The leg OF the table

Conjunctions

A type of word that is used to connect

words or groups of words within a
sentence.

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In traditional English grammar, the

types of conjunctions are as follows:
1. Coordinating conjunctions which
connect two words, sentences or
phrases of equal grammatical status),
Example: We can go to the movies or
to the theater.

2. Subordinating conjunctions which

subordinate a word or phrase to
another
Examples:
If I were sick, I would see a doctor.

… and

3. Correlative conjunctions which

come in pairs
• Either we go to the movies or we
go to the theater.
• He neither came nor called to say
he was not coming.

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Adverbs
• Adverbs are words that modify verbs,
adjectives and other adverbs.
• This very smart student studies quite
hard for his exams.
• In the sentence,
the adverb very modifies the adjective smart.
the adverb hard modifies the verb studies.
the adverb quite modifies the adverb hard.

Articles
• There are three articles in English: a, an and the.
• They always go before a noun.
• A/an refers to countable singular nouns. They
refer to any person, place or thing.

• I want a porter to help me carry my luggage.

• (It can be any of the porters working at the
station)
• They wanted to have a nice, relaxing meal.

• The article the refers to a specific place,

person or thing. The can be used with
countable (singular and plural) and
uncountable nouns.
• The video I watched was excellent.
• (Specific, singular, countable.)
• The sugar in my coffee is not enough.
• (specific, uncountable)
• The children played videogames.
• (specific, plural)

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