Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech

By- Sreesurya

Types of Parts of speech

Noun

Pronoun

Verb

Adverb

Adjective

Preposition

Conjunction

Interjection

Noun

a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).

Pronoun

a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this).

Adverb

a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there).

Adjective

a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Preposition

a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in ‘the man on the platform’, ‘she arrived after dinner’, ‘what did you do it for?’.

Conjunction

a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if).

Interjection

Interjections are words used to express strong feeling or sudden emotion.

THANK YOU

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