Parts of speech

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Parts of speech</b></span></span><br /> <div class="ECtip"> <span style="color: blue;"><strong>You can also see these parts of speech examples</strong></span></div> <span style="color: blue;"><b> </b></span><table border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>part of speech</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>function or "job"</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>example words</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>example sentences</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Verb</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>action or state</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>(to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>English Club is a web site. I like English Club.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Noun</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>thing or person</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Adjective</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>describes a noun</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Adverb</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>describes a verb, adjective or adverb</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Pronoun</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>replaces a noun</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>I, you, he, she, some</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Preposition</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>links a noun to another word</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>to, at, after, on, but</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>We went to school on Monday.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Conjunction</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>joins clauses or sentences or words</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>and, but, when</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.</strong></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Interjection</strong></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><b>oh!, ouch!, hi!, well</b></span></td> <td><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.</strong></span></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span style="color: blue;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: blue;"><strong>* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At English Club, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:</strong></span><br /> <span style="color: blue;"><b> </b></span><ul> <li><span style="color: blue;"><b>Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech: </b></span><ul> <li><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Lexical Verbs (<em>work, like, run</em>)</strong></span></li> <li><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Auxiliary Verbs (<em>be, have, must</em>)</strong></span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjectives</strong></span></li> </ul> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgf0aAbj20G4biQHWHJncYCY0iJgCt8rTwWTcYRLAXk6rEPxjjJNzXoWRTCI8jlRiPUInRIgfNKDVVRg0DRS9Sf0jo-8lzVsqHauS9sI8WAyD-m5_dRgtP-BSr71jdj8NAJy1BYYALj_e/s1600/classes+of+part+of+speech.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgf0aAbj20G4biQHWHJncYCY0iJgCt8rTwWTcYRLAXk6rEPxjjJNzXoWRTCI8jlRiPUInRIgfNKDVVRg0DRS9Sf0jo-8lzVsqHauS9sI8WAyD-m5_dRgtP-BSr71jdj8NAJy1BYYALj_e/s1600/classes+of+part+of+speech.png" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlphAN-orhGfLBvAPUfWfCoDLKS4HlEsmPjtr8Q4J8-WHkv8tXjKBTp561wfc3olm7LNJjECKhwryzHRTKoiQjpvgH40ncMuM4T4orRKFJQtD5boHx6Bvao6lhB2VMQBxUelecWF0ipKe5/s1600/please20say20thanks20if+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="51" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlphAN-orhGfLBvAPUfWfCoDLKS4HlEsmPjtr8Q4J8-WHkv8tXjKBTp561wfc3olm7LNJjECKhwryzHRTKoiQjpvgH40ncMuM4T4orRKFJQtD5boHx6Bvao6lhB2VMQBxUelecWF0ipKe5/s1600/please20say20thanks20if+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4nIViO4v5JuDja8J0WltDmduayjeL2d5XGm_EkWq66oRUAlTOfqbOc35ySRaNHUxl3Itch15fkWZrK1rQh6SWFHU8kCaJjjjChKlaltb5pYwHCYz9zsdu4BBPZuFj7son2D9Dom09QgGp/s1600/zain-net.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4nIViO4v5JuDja8J0WltDmduayjeL2d5XGm_EkWq66oRUAlTOfqbOc35ySRaNHUxl3Itch15fkWZrK1rQh6SWFHU8kCaJjjjChKlaltb5pYwHCYz9zsdu4BBPZuFj7son2D9Dom09QgGp/s1600/zain-net.gif" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <u><span style="color: lime;"><b><a href="http://www.4shared.com/office/g2sFZZY9/parts.html" target="_blank">Download</a></b></span></u></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> </div>

Parts of speech

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