Beautiful is a word to describe someone or something. They are used to describe nouns.Īn example of an adjective would be “beautiful”. AdjectivesĪdjectives are describing words. Other examples of verbs include: sing, watch, play, sleep, study, walk, and think. Run is a word to describe someone or something who is moving faster than a walking speed. Verbs are action words! They are used to describe things that nouns do!Īn example of a verb would be “run”. Things (can be physical things or ideas): chair, pencil, thoughts, memories, and knowledge. Some examples of a person are: sister, friend, Alex, Stephanie, you, me, dogĮxamples of places are: house, beach, New York, playground, the store Understanding the parts of speech will teach you to use words properly in a sentence and become a better writer. We are going to talk about four of the main eight parts of speech, which are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. D.A.There are several different parts of speech, which are categories of types of words. The words we use to make question word questions: WHo, WHat, HoW Without grammar very little can be conveyed without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed. Shortened forms of words and phrases, common in speech: I'm, aren't, here's, gonna Lists of words starting with the combining forms mono- and poly. Lists of suffixes and examples in use: -ation, -al, -ize List of prefixes with examples: non-, inter-, post. Interjections have no grammatical value - words like: ah, hey, oh, ouch, um, well Word Forms Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns, like: me, you, his, it, this, that, mine, yours, who, what Prepositions are words usually in front of a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element, like: after, down, near, of, plus, round, to Nouns are words for people, places or things like: mother, town, Rome, car, dogĪdjectives are words that describe nouns, like: kind, clever, expensiveĪdverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs, like: quickly, back, ever, badly, away generally, completely Verbs are action or state words like: run, work, study, be, seem But note that some grammarians use different systems and may recognise eight or ten different word classes.

Modern grammars normally recognise four major word classes (verb, noun, adjective, adverb) and five other word classes (determiners, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, interjection), making nine word classes (or parts of speech) in total. Note that word classes are also called parts of speech.

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