Question

what are parts of speech? Please answer with the definition of each part!!!!​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

What is a Part of Speech?

We can categorize English words into 9 basic types called "parts of speech" or "word classes". It's quite important to recognize parts of speech. This helps you to analyze sentences and understand them. It also helps you to construct good sentences.

Parts of Speech Table

Parts of Speech Examples

Parts of Speech Quiz

Parts of Speech Table

This is a summary of the 9 parts of speech*. You can find more detail if you click on each part of speech.

part of speech function or "job" example words example sentences

Verb action or state (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must EnglishClub is a web site. I like EnglishClub.

Noun thing or person pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.

Adjective describes a noun good, big, red, well, interesting My dogs are big. I like big dogs.

Determiner limits or "determines" a noun a/an, the, 2, some, many I have two dogs and some rabbits.

Adverb describes a verb, adjective or adverb quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.

Pronoun replaces a noun I, you, he, she, some Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.

Preposition links a noun to another word to, at, after, on, but We went to school on Monday.

Conjunction joins clauses or sentences or words and, but, when I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.

Interjection short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence oh!, ouch!, hi!, well Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

* Some grammar sources traditionally categorize English into 8 parts of speech. Others say 10. At EnglishClub, we use the more recent categorization of 9 parts of speech. Examples of other categorizations are:

Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech:

lexical Verbs (work, like, run)

auxiliary Verbs (be, have, must)

Determiners may be treated as adjectives, instead of being a separate part of speech.

Parts of Speech Examples

Here are some examples of sentences made with different English parts of speech:

verb

Stop!

noun verb

John works.

noun verb verb

John is working.

pronoun verb noun

She loves animals.

noun verb noun adverb

Tara speaks English well.

noun verb adjective noun

Tara speaks good English.

Answer 2

Words can be categorized into 8 different parts of speech.

• A verb shows an action or state.
• A noun is a name,place,animal ot thing.
• An adjective describes a noun.
• An adverb describes a verb.
• A pronoun is used in the place of a noun.
• A preposition links a noun to some other word/phrase.
• A conjuction joins clauses or sentences or words.
• An interjection is a word used to express joy, pain, sadness etc.