The Full Explanation of The Parts of Speech
Parts of speech: According to their meanings, forms, and functions in the sentence all English words can be classified into eight groups, called Parts of speech. These eight groups are: Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections. *Amazingly, only eight parts of speech are used to classify hundreds of thousands of words. The challenge is that many of words can be used for more than one part of speech. 1) Identifying characteristics of Nouns: -Nouns are parts of speech which include words denoting, persons, places, things, qualities, actions, or ideas. Examples: a teacher, England, Japan, writing, happiness, a book, freedom, etc. The articles “a”, “an”, and “the” are ‘markers’ indicating that a noun is to follow Examples: A book, an article, the boy. -The functions of Nouns in the sentence are: Subjects, Objects and Complements. Examples: Jhon , is a famous Britis...