By: Evan
There are eight parts of speech in our language. They are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. Here are their definitions and some examples:
Noun
A word that represents a person, place, thing or idea.
Examples:
South Carolina, child, house, Boston, Fenway Park,
park,computer, pencil, bear
Pronoun
A word that takes the place of a noun.
Examples:
I, they, their, ourselves, itself, your, my, nobody, who, which, her, we
A word that is used to describe any noun or pronoun.
Examples:
blue, fuzzy, smooth, smelly, wet, rough, gross
A word that indicates any action.
Examples:
play, run, think, study, smell, wait, be, drive, kick, read
Adverb
A word that is used to describe a verb.
Examples:
carefully, often, very, quite, too, rarely, never
Conjunction
A word that is used to join words or groups of words.
Examples:
and, or, but, neither, because, while, since
Preposition
A word used indicating the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.
Examples:
in, until, of, from, after, under, beyond, across
Interjection
A single word used to express strong emotion.
Examples:
Wow! Ah! Oh! No!
