Monday, 10 November 2008

Summary about parts of speech!!

Parts of speech: are the basic types of words that English has.

There are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections

Noun: It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action.
Ex: tree, Danny, England, box.

Verb:
A verb is a word which describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something).
Ex: run, eat, been.

Adjective:
An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun.
Ex: pretty, red, fat, important.

Adverb:
An adverb is a word which usually describes a verb. It tells you how something is done. It may also tell you when or where something happened.
Ex:
yesterday, tomorrow,slowly.

Pronoun:
A pronoun is used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun.
Ex:
I, you, he, she, it, we, they.

Conjunction:
A conjunction joins two words, phrases or sentences together.
Ex: but, or. so.

Preposition:
A preposition usually comes before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase. It joins the noun to some other part of the sentence.
Ex: in, at, on, with.

Interjection:
An interjection is an unusual kind of word, because it often stands alone. Interjections are words which express emotion or surprise, and they are usually followed by exclamation marks.
Ex:Oh no!, Ha!

To know this rules are important for learn English, because this help us to understand all about of the grammar of English

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