Parts of Speech

Below you will find a quick review of Parts of Speech. 

If you’re increasing your vocabulary and adding new words to your repertoire, you need to know the part of speech the words belong to so that you can use them correctly. The following list shows the nine parts of speech in English. Note that some words, like open or yellow, can be used as more than one part of speech.

Nouns: Words that name a person, place, thing, or idea (sofa, democracy)

Pronouns: Words that take the place of a noun or another pronoun (I, you, me, he, she, it, we, who, they)

Adjectives: Words that describe nouns and pronouns (red, more, second, several)

Verbs: Words that name an action or describe a state of being (run, seem)

Adverbs: Words that describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs (yesterday, below, happily, partly)

Aricle: Words that specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun. (a, an, the)

Conjunctions: Words that connect words or groups of words and show how they are related (and, or, for, but, after, although, because)

Prepositions: Words that link a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence (by, about, behind, above, across, at, with)

Interjections: Words that show strong emotion (Oh! Wow! Yeah!)