Parts of Speech in English Grammar with Examples

As we know that we have thousands of words in English language, these words help us to express the needs, thoughts and feelings. In English language some words express “action”, others “thing”.

There are eight parts of speech in English grammar and every word in English can be categorized into these parts of speech.

1)      Noun: - We can say,” Noun is the name of place, person, object, quality or concept.”

Noun is the part of speech which resides in the categories: person, place, and thing. Given below are some on examples of nouns.

Person & Place noun: - Hong Kong, America, George Bush etc.

Things or Object Noun: - Pencil, Chair, Tree an Ball pen ect.

Quality or concepts:- Socialism, State, Government, Beauty etc.

2)      Verb: - Verb is a word which used to explain a state, action or occurrence and it go along with nouns. This part of speech also express actions that have already happened, happening presently, happen on regular basis, or will happen in future.

In other words we can say Verb is a word which tells us something about subject. There can be no sentence without a verb – a verb is nerve of a sentence.

Example:-

He is running outside today.

I am making a phone call.

He spoke to his father.

I bought this car.

I jumped over the cat.

3)      Pronouns: - Pronoun is the word in  part of speech which word used instead of noun.

Example: - They, she, It, that, few, myself and himself ect.

i)                    Rose is my sister she is a doctor.

ii)                  A ship went out to sea, and she had all her sails up.

Here the pronoun ‘she’ is used instead of the noun ‘ship’ and saves its being mentioned twice. Its chief use is to save the repetition of a noun. We should note that a pronoun by itself is meaningless. It acquires meaning only when the mind of the person associates it with some noun already mentioned.

4)      Adjectives: - Adjective is the part of speech which describe noun and pronoun. An adjective, as already made clear, qualifies a noun or adds to its meaning.

Example:-

i)                    Dalhousie is a beautiful hill station.

ii)                  Cristine is an intelligent girl.

iii)                The claver fox began to flatter the foolish crow.

5)      Adverb: - An adverb is the word which usually modifies or adds to the meaning of a verb, adjective or another adverb.

Example:-

i)                    My friend speaks English very frequently.

ii)                  Tom is very fine these days.

iii)                Nancy talks gently.

In the above sentences, ‘gently’, ‘very’ are the words which have modified or added something to the meaning of the words, ‘talks’, ‘fine ‘and ‘fluently’.

6)      Prepositions: - Part of speech preposition have the most tough definition among all parts, but the they are easy to understand.

“Preposition is the words that always show relationship between a noun and pronoun and always placed before the noun or pronoun.”

i)                    Peter is putting his pen into his pocket.

ii)                  Your pen is on the table.

You can see in given above sentences into, on, with showing relationship with pocket, table, you.

7)      Conjunction: - Conjunction is the glue words which joins two words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.

8)      Interjections: - In the parts of speech, an interjections is the words which express the sudden feeling.