PARTS OF SPEECH

PARTS OF SPEECH :-

   * OPEN CLASS :-

• NOUNS
• VERBS
• ADJECTIVES
• ADVERBS

   * CLOSE CLASS :-

• PRONOUNS
• PREPOSITIONS
• CONJUNCTIONS
• DETERMINERS
• INTERJECTION

NOUNS

-is a word used to name a person, place, thing or idea

  example : teacher, Arizona, car. love

 * Common nouns 

       - common names shared by everything of the same kind.

       - example : Sons, bird, villages, horses, country

 * Proper nouns

       - Names of particular people, animals, places or things.

       - example : Anita, Johannesburg, Asian Tourism International College, Chrismas, etc

* Collective nouns

       - Refer to group of things that are regarded as one, collection of persons, places, activities & concepts.

       - example : Congregation, jury, team, staff, audience

 * Abstaract nouns

        - Denote a quality, a feeling, an action or a state of mind (things which are intangible & cannot be counted)

        - example : Efficiency, admiration, beuty, honesty, respect

VERB

• a word which shows action or state of being
• every sentence must have a verb
• Actions verbs (transitive and intransitive)
• Non-actions verbs (be verbs and linking verbs)

ADJECTIVES

• An adjective is a word used to modify a noun or a pronoun; it answers questions like What kind? How much? or How many? example: red apple, that book, fifty cents, two touchdowns.
• Articles are adjectives that determine specific or generalnouns. example : a, an, the
• Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns. example : Italian food, European vacation

ADVERB

• can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause.
• An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how", "when", "where", "how much".
• Unlike an adjective, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentences.

PRONOUNS

• Pronouns are words used in the place of one or more nouns (called antecedents)

           example : Manual told his aunt that he bought a new computer.

• Personal pronouns stand for people, places, and things

           example : I, me, yours, himself, she, hers, its, ours, they, theirs

PREPOSITIONS

• A preposition is a word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence.

           example : above, before, during, for, in, near, off, to, with.

CONJUNCTIONS

• A conjunction is a word that joins words, groups of words, or complete sentences of equal value.
• EXAMPLE :

1. Lucy and Ed left the door open.
2. He is going to school, but I am going to work.
3. He is going to school; however, I am going to work.

INTERJECTIONS

• An interjection is a word that expresses strong emotion. Interjections can be followed by a comma or an exclamation point.
• EXAMPLES :

1. Wow! I never knew that.
2. Oh, did I do that?