Parts of Speech
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RumahBelajarInggris.Blospot.Com - Here, Admin Wanna to share Part Of speech in English. Maybe Some of Googler is Searching this Post. But before it, Do you know what part of the speech is. A part of speech (abbreviated form: PoS or POS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar behavior in terms of syntax—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes in terms of morphology, in that they undergo inflection for similar properties. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, and sometimes numeral, article or determiner.Ok. To short the time, Let's Check it Out!!!
Parts of Speech Table
This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech.part of speech | function or "job" | example words | example sentences |
Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com. |
Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London. |
Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs. |
Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly. |
Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. |
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 dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. |
Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know. |
- 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 Adjectives
Parts of Speech Examples
Here are some sentences made with different English parts of speech:
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pronoun | verb | preposition | adjective | noun | adverb |
She | ran | to | the | station | quickly. |
pron. | verb | adj. | noun | conjunction | pron. | verb | pron. |
She | likes | big | snakes | but | I | hate | them. |
interjection | pron. | conj. | adj. | noun | verb | prep. | noun | adverb |
Well, | she | and | young | John | walk | to | school | slowly. |
Words with More than One Job
Many words in English can have more than one job, or be more than one part of speech. For example, "work" can be a verb and a noun; "but" can be a conjunction and a preposition; "well" can be an adjective, an adverb and an interjection. In addition, many nouns can act as adjectives.To analyze the part of speech, ask yourself: "What job is this word doing in this sentence?"
In the table below you can see a few examples. Of course, there are more, even for some of the words in the table. In fact, if you look in a good dictionary you will see that the word "but" has six jobs to do:
- verb, noun, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjuction!
word | part of speech | example |
work | noun | My work is easy. |
verb | I work in London. | |
but | conjunction | John came but Mary didn't come. |
preposition | Everyone came but Mary. | |
well | adjective | Are you well? |
adverb | She speaks well. | |
interjection | Well! That's expensive! | |
afternoon | noun | We ate in the afternoon. |
noun acting as adjective | We had afternoon tea. |
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