Sr.# | Part of Speech | Task, job, function | words as example | sentences as example |
1. | NOUN | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, Lahore, teacher, Ali | This is my pen. He lives in my house. We live in Lahore. |
2. | PRONOUN | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Aafia is Pakistani. She is beautiful. |
3. | ADJECTIVE | describes a noun | a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | My cat is big. I like big cats. |
4. | VERB | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | Google is a web site. I like google.com. |
5. | ADVERB | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My cat eats quickly. When she is very hungry, she eats really quickly. |
6. | PREPOSITION | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to school on Monday. |
7. | 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. |
8. | INTERJECTION | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know. |
Friday, October 28, 2011
Parts of speech with brief definition
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