Parts of speech learning the 8 parts of speech
What will I learn from the lesson parts of speech?
This grammar lesson on parts of speech, you will learn what the 8 parts of speech are in the English language.
The first part of the lesson is a table that shows you the 8 parts with examples. The Last part of the lesson is another table where it shows more examples and some short sentences of how to use them in a sentence.
You can also to click on a link to get a more detailed explanation of each of the 8 parts in the last table.
What are the 8 parts of speech?
The 8 parts of speech are:-
| Nouns | Adjectives | Pronouns | Interjections |
| Conjunctions | Prepositions | Adverbs | Verbs |
Parts of speech
Below is a table that shows the 8 parts of speech where each one is described with examples.
Table 2 of the eight parts of speech.
If you need to find out a more in depth explanation of the part of speech, click on each separate speech part.
| 8 parts of speech | function or what it does (job) | Example words | Example sentences |
| Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | easypacelearning.com is a web site for learning English. I like easypacelearning.com. |
| Noun | are a thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my cat. He lives in my flat. We live in Manchester. |
| Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, 3, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | I have three dogs. My dogs are small. I like smallg dogs. |
| 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. |
| Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Sarah is Englsh. She is beautiful English rose. |
| Preposition | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to shopping on Saturday. |
| Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when |
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| Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, yeah, ouch!, hi!, well, wow, | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Wow! am shocked.. |
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