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Part of Speech

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Definitions and examples of English parts of speech

Part of SpeechDefinitionWord examplesMore word examples
Noun Names a person, place, thing or idea pen, pencil, doctor, mother, kitchen, school, park freedom, democracy, cereal, car, shoe, grasshopper, vacation
Proper noun specific and capitalized name of a person, place, thing, or idea Empire State Building, Waco, Mount Vernon, "The Tell-tale Heart" Bill Gates, S.E. Hinton, Lemony Snicket, Six Flags over Texas, Fruit Loops
Collective Noun a singular noun that includes many individual persons or animals herd, flock, gaggle, team committee, band, squad, pride (of lions)
Adjective describes a noun or pronoun by telling what kind, which one, how many, and sometimes whose or how much small, gigantic, young, rich, sixteen, purple, brave, afraid, silly Sally's, that, these, cute, repulsive, some, many
Adverb describes verbs, adjectives and adverbs by telling how, when, where, or to what extent quickly, clumsily, efficiently, well, not, here today, soon, never, everywhere, often, seldom, very
Helping verbs common verbs that appear before the main verb in a verb phrase am, is, are, was, were, have, has could, would, should, do, does, did
Action verbs words that show mental or physical action run, slide, swim, scream, eat, skate think, ponder, imagine, analyze, dream, love, hate
Linking verbs words that link the subject with an idea about the subject am, is, are, was, were, have been is being, seems, appears, becomes, smells, tastes
Preposition a word that shows time and place relationship, always in a phrase with an object and possibly modifiers about above, according to, in front of, over, inside via, after, onto, under, with, for, of, during
Conjunction connects words, phrases and clauses and, or and but are the most commonly used either/or, neither/nor, not only/but also
interjection shows mild or strong emotion, set off by a comma or exclamation mark oh, well, sure, yes, no, Hooray! Whew! Yikes! No way!
Pronoun takes the place of a noun to avoid too much repetition I, you, she, themselves, this, these, some, many, both everybody, something, no one, who, whom, what
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