PARTS OF SPEECH
Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, thepronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech, followed by an exercise.
Definition and Examples.
VERB
Dracula bites his victims on the neck.
NOUN
Late last year our neighbours bought a goat.
PRONOUN
ADJECTIVE
ADVERB
An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".
preposition
A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in asentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
The book is on the table.
The book is beneath the table.
The book is on the table.
The book is beneath the table.
conjuction
You can use a conjunction to link words, phrases, and clauses, as in the following example:
I ate the pizza and the pasta.
Call the movers when you are ready.
I ate the pizza and the pasta.
Call the movers when you are ready.
interjection
An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.
Ouch, that hurt!Oh no,
I forgot that the exam was today.
Ouch, that hurt!Oh no,
I forgot that the exam was today.
bibliography
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/partsp.html
http://www.really-learn-english.com/english-parts-of-speech.html
URL: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/courses/ptspeech.htm
http://www.really-learn-english.com/english-parts-of-speech.html
URL: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/courses/ptspeech.htm