Parts of Speech Table

Grammar

Part of Speec Function or "Job" Example Words h

Verb action or state adore, respect, call, find, says, does belongs, love, performing.

Noun person, dad, name, planet, El Segundo, Dad’s, place, birthplace, fun, surgery, one another or thing anesthetic.

Adjective describes a alien, enormous, lovable, experimental, noun or risky, creepy, sick, entertaining, pronoun whimsical. clarifies a verb

Adverb describes a verb, so, strangely, sometimes, impetuously, adjective or upstairs, really, oddly, rather; weirdly, adverb curiously, always, such.

Pronoun replaces a noun it, I, we me, myself, he, you, you, us.

Preposition links a noun to At, about, before, in, through onto, to another word, below, inside with: off down into below. often shows after around location

Conjunctio joins clauses or although, neither, nor, and because, yet, n sentences or but. words

Interjection short ouch, oh no, holy moley, hi, wow, exclamation shows emotion