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The 9 Parts of Speech

The document defines and provides examples for the 9 traditional parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles/determiners, and interjections. Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas. Verbs indicate actions and states of being. Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Prepositions show spatial and temporal relationships. Conjunctions join words and phrases. Articles and determiners identify and quantify nouns. Interjections express strong emotions.

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The 9 Parts of Speech

The document defines and provides examples for the 9 traditional parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles/determiners, and interjections. Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas. Verbs indicate actions and states of being. Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Prepositions show spatial and temporal relationships. Conjunctions join words and phrases. Articles and determiners identify and quantify nouns. Interjections express strong emotions.

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The 9 Parts of Speech

Noun  Examples: softly, lazily, often, only, hopefully,


softly, sometimes.
 Name of person, place, thing, or idea.
 Capitalized when they're the official name of Preposition
something or someone, called proper nouns in  Show spatial, temporal, and role relations
these cases. between a noun or pronoun and the other
 Examples: pirate, Caribbean, ship, freedom, words in a sentence.
Captain Jack Sparrow.  They come at the start of a prepositional
phrase, which contains a preposition and its
Pronoun object.
 Examples: up, over, against, by, for, into,
 Stand in for nouns in a sentence. close to, out of, apart from.
 More generic versions of nouns that refer only
to people. Conjunction
 Examples: I, you, he, she, it, ours, them, who,
which, anybody, ourselves.  Join words, phrases, and clauses in a sentence.
 There are coordinating, subordinating, and
Verb correlative conjunctions.
 Examples: and, but, or, so, yet, with.
 Action words that tell what happens in a
sentence. Articles and Determiners
 Shows a sentence subject's state of being
(is, was).   Function like adjectives by modifying nouns,
 Change form based on tense (present, past) but they are different than adjectives in that
 Count distinction (singular or plural). they are necessary for a sentence to have
 Examples: sing, dance, believes, seemed, proper syntax.
finish, eat, drink, be, became  Specify and identify nouns, and there are
indefinite and definite articles.
Adjective  Examples: 
o articles: a, an, the;
 Describe nouns and pronouns. o determiners: these, that, those, enough,
 Specify which one, how much, what kind, and much, few, which, what.
more.
 Allow readers and listeners to use their senses *Some traditional grammars have
to imagine something more clearly. treated articles as a distinct part of speech.
 Examples: hot, lazy, funny, unique, bright, Modern grammars, however, more often include
beautiful, poor, smooth. articles in the category of determiners, which
identify or quantify a noun.
Adverb
Interjection
 Describe verbs, adjectives, and even other
adverbs.  Expressions that can stand on their own or be
contained within sentences.
 Specify when, where, how, and why something
happened and to what extent or how often.  These words and phrases often carry strong
emotions and convey reactions.
 Examples: ah,whoops, ouch, yabba dabba do!

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