PARTS OF SPEECH.
NOUNS.(COUNTABLE, UNCOUNTABLE): To act as the subject/object of the verbs, to name people, places, things, qualities, ideas or activities. example: Children, sugar.
VERBS.(TRANSITIVE, INTRANSITIVE): To show an action, state or experience. Example See, Run.
ADJECTIVES. (COMPARATIVE): To describe or give more information about a noun, pronoun or part of a sentence. Example: easier.
ADVERBS.( OF DEGREE, MANNER, TIME): To describe or give more informarion about how, when or where something happens. To add information to adjectives, verbs, other adverbs or sentences. Example: Completely, quickly, yesterday.
DETERMINERS.( POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES, ARTICLES, DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES, QUANTIFIERS): To make clear which noun is referred to or to give information about quantity. Example: My, the, this, both.
PREPOSITIONS.( OF TIME, PLACE, DIRECTION): To connect a noun , noun phrase or pronoun to another word or phrase. Example: After, at, towards.
PRONOUNS.( PERSONAL, POSSESSIVE, RELATIVE, REFLEXIVE): To replace or refer to a noun or noun phrase just mentioned. Example: She, mine, who, myself.
CONJUCTIONS.( OF REASON, ADDITION, CONTRAST): To join words, sentences or parts of sentences. Example: As, and, but.
EXCLAMATION.( OF DOUBT, PAINT): To show a (strong) feeling especially in informal spoken language. Example: Er, Ow.
DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES.
part of speech | function or "job" | example words | example sentences |
Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | EnglishClub.com is a web site. Ilike EnglishClub.com. |
Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in myhouse. We live in London. |
Adjective | describes a noun | a/an, the, 2, some, good, big, red, well, interesting | I have two dogs. My dogs are big. I like big dogs. |
Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eats quickly. When he isvery hungry, he eats reallyquickly. |
Pronoun | replaces a noun | I, you, he, she, some | Tara is Indian. She is beautiful. |
Preposition | links a noun to another word | to, at, after, on, but | We went to school on Monday. |
Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats. |