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