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Parts of Speech           

 

 

There are eight parts of speech in the English language:

 

Part of Speech

Examples

Nouns

people, places, things, ideas

boy, tree, library, love

Adjectives

describe nouns

red, soft, big

Pronouns

take the place of nouns

he, they, she, we

Verbs

express action or being

run, jump, were

Adverbs

modify verbs

quickly, later, here, very

Prepositions

show relationship of a word to other words in a sentence

in, at, on

Conjunctions

join words or groups of words

but, and, or

Interjections

exclamations expressing emotion

Oh!  Yeah! Wow!

 

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