Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Summary about Parts of Speech

What are Parts of speech?
There are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections.

Nouns: a noun maybe the name of people, a place, or object, a quality or characteristic, or an idea.
For example: Arica, people, apple, etc.

Pronouns: are words that take the place of nouns.
Examples: I, she, he, it, etc

Verb: A verb states an action or expresses a state or condition.Verbs can be transitive, requiring an object, or intransitive, requiring only a subject
Examples: sleep, play, read, etc.

Adjective: An adjective is used to modify a noun or a pronoun.
Examples: yellow, intelligent, good etc

Adverb: is used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
Examples: daily, there, slowly, etc.

Conjunction: is a word that joins words or groups of words.
Examples: but, or, and, etc.

Preposition: is a word that is used to show the relation of a noun or pronoun that follows it tonsome other word in the sentence.
Examples: about, for, between, etc

Interjection: are words wich expressed emotion or surprise, and they are usually followed by exclamation marks.
Examples: Hello! Oh no! Eh!

1 comment:

I celebrate myself & sing myself said...

Carol
I think that you have done a good summary about parts of speech. At the same time I believed that you manage parts of speech very well I can see it because of the content of your summary.By the way... you look very nice in your picture.
Loreto