Language is the foundation of communication. To use it effectively, we must understand its building blocks—the parts of speech. These are the categories into which words are classified based on their roles in sentences. English has eight traditional parts of speech, each serving a distinct purpose.
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. It is one of the most fundamental parts of speech in English grammar and often serves as the subject or object in a sentence. There are several types of nouns, such as proper nouns, common nouns, countable nouns, uncountable nouns, concrete nouns, abstract nouns, collective nouns, and compound nouns.
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A pronoun is a word used in place of a noun or noun phrase to avoid repetition and simplify sentences. Pronouns help refer to people, objects, places, or ideas without naming them explicitly each time. There are seven main types of pronouns: personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, and indefinite pronouns.
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A verb is a word that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being. Verbs indicate what the subject does, what happens to the subject, or the subject’s condition or state. There are several types of verbs- Action verbs, linking verbs, auxiliary verbs, and modal verbs
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An adjective is a word that describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun, such as its size, color, quantity, or quality. The main types of adjectives are descriptive, quantitative, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, and distributive adjectives.
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An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by providing more information about how, when, where, or to what extent something happens.
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A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence, often indicating direction, place, time, cause, manner, or instrumentality. Prepositions typically precede their objects and form prepositional phrases. The main types of prepositions are prepositions of place, time, direction, cause, and manner.
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A conjunction is a word that connects words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence to show their relationship. The main types of conjunctions are coordinating conjunctions, which link equal parts like- and, but, and or
Subordinating conjunctions connect dependent clauses to independent ones, such as because, although, if, etc.
and correlative conjunctions, which work in pairs like either…or, neither…nor, both…and, etc.
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An interjection is a word or phrase that expresses a sudden emotion or reaction, such as surprise, joy, pain, or excitement. It is often standalone and followed by an exclamation mark.
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