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PART OF SPEECH |
BASIC FUNCTION |
EXAMPLES |
Noun |
names a person, place, thing or idea |
house, book, New York |
Pronoun |
takes the place of a noun |
I, you, he, she, it, ours, them, who |
Verb |
Indicates an action or state of being |
sing, dance, believe, be, think, study, smell, wait |
Adjective |
Describes a noun or a pronoun ou modifies a noun |
hot, lazy, funny, proud, sad |
Adverb |
Describes a verb which tells how, where, or when something is done, modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb |
softly, lazily, often, carefully, intelligently |
Preposition |
shows a relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence |
up, over, against, by, for, in, from, under, across, |
Conjunction |
joins words, phrases, and clauses |
and, but, or, yet, because, since, although |
Interjection |
expresses emotion |
ah, whoops, ouch, wow ! oh!no! |