PART OF SPEECH

DEFITION

PARTS

EXAMPLES

To name people, things, qualities, ideas or activities.

To act as the subject / object of the verb.

Nouns (e.g. countable,    uncountable).

Children

sugar

To show an action, state or experience.

Verbs (e.g. transitive, intransitive).

See

run

To describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun or part of a sentence.

Adjectives (e. g. comparative).

Easier

To add information to adjectives, verbs, other adverbs or sentences.

Adverbs (e.g. of degree, manner, time).

Completely: degree.

Quickly: manner, time.

Yesterday: time.

To make clear which noun is referred to or to give information about quantity.

Determiners (e.g. possessive adjectives, articles, demonstrative adjectives, quantifiers).

My

The

This

both

To connect a noun, noun phrase or pronoun to another word or phrase.

Preposition (e.g. of time, place, direction).

After

At

towards.

To replace or refer to a noun phrase just mentioned.

Pronouns (e.g. personal, possessive, relative, reflexive)

She

Mine

Who

myself

To join words, sentences or parts of sentence

Conjunctions (e.g. of reason, addition, contrast)

As

And

but

To show a (strong) feeling- especially in informal spoken language

Exclamations (e.g. of doubt, pain)

Er

Ow