EIGHT PARTS A SPEECH IN ENGLISH WITH A FEW EXAMPLES

Part of speech	function or "job"	example words	example sentences
Verb	action or state	(to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must	Juventus Football team is an Italian club. I like Juventus Football club.
Noun	thing or person	Stick, Cat, work, music, kennel, Rome, Lecture, Paolo	This is my cat. He lives in a kennel. We are travelling to   Rome.
Adjective	describes a noun	a/an, the, some, good, small, red, well, interesting	I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs. I saw an elephant today
Adverb	describes a verb, adjective or adverb	quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really	My brother runs quickly. He is very interesting, he really inspires me.
Pronoun	replaces a noun	I, you, he, she, some	Paolo is Italian.  He is handsome.
Preposition	links a noun to another word	to, at, after, on, but	We went to school on Monday.
Conjunction	joins clauses or sentences or words	and, but, when	I like vegetables and I like good soups. I like vegetables but I don't like soups.
Interjection	short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence	oh! ouch!, hi!, well	Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, That sounds crazy.

* Examples of other categorizations are:

• Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:
• Lexical Verbs (work, like, run)
• Auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)
• Determiners may be treated as a separate part of speech, instead of being categorized under Adjective