The Eight Parts of Speech


Noun

A word which is a person, place, thing or idea.

Examples:

Mount Everest, book, horse, Peter, strength, car, Empire State Building, China, house, child

Pronoun

A word that is used to take the place of a noun.

Examples:

I, they, their, ourselves, itself, your, my, nobody, who, which, her, we

Adjective

A word that is used to describe a noun or pronoun.

Examples:

proud, purple, French, few, this, huge, sad, second, none

Verb

A word that indicates an action, being or state or being.

Examples:

play, run, think, study, smell, wait, be, drive, renounce, fill

Adverb

A word that is used to describe a verb which tells how, where, or when something is done.

Examples:

carefully, often, very, intelligently, quite, too, rarely, never

Conjunction

A word that is used to join words or groups of words.

Examples:

and, or, but, neither, because, while, since, although

Preposition

A word used indicating the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word.

Examples:

in, until, of, from, after, under, beyond, across, toward

Interjection

A single word used to express strong emotion.

Examples:

Wow! Ah! Oh! No