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	adsolo.blogspot.com is a web site. Ilike adsolo.blogspot.com.
Noun	thing or person	pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John	This is my birds. He lives in myhouse. We live in Solo.
Adjective	describes a noun	a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting	I have two cats. My cats are big. I like big cats.
Adverb	describes a verb, adjective or adverb	quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really	My cat eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly.
Pronoun	replaces a noun	I, you, he, she, some	Nita is Indonesian. 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 birds and I like cats. I like cats and birds. I like birds 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.

* Some grammar sources categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At adsolo.blogspot.com, we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech. 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 Adjectives