Parts of speech

In traditional grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical terms) that have similar grammatical properties.

NOUN A noun names a person, place, things or idea. Examples: dog, cat, mouse, student, cucumber, apple, Lucy, etc.

ADVERB An adverb tells how often, how, when, where. It can describe a verb, an adjective or an adverb. Examples: loudly, always, never, late, soon, etc.

VERB A verb is a word or group of words that describes an action, an experience. Examples: realize, walk, see, look, sing, sit, listen, etc.

ADJECTIVE An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. Examples: blue, tall, thin, long, short, red, beautiful, sour, sweet, etc.

PREPOSITION A preposition is used before a noun, pronoun, or gerund to show place, time, direction in a sentence. Examples: at, in, on, about, to, for, from, etc.

CONJUNCTION A conjunction joins words or groups of words in a sentence. Examples: and, because, yet, therefore, moreover, since, or, so, until, but, etc…

PRONOUN A pronoun replaces the name of a person, place, thing or idea in a sentence. Examples: he, we, they, me, him, us, this, that, who, which, what, somebody, anything, mine, ours, myself, etc.

INTERJECTION An interjection expresses strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point. Examples: Bravo! Well! Aha! Hooray! Yeah! Oops! etc.

ARTICLE An article is a word that you use with nouns. An article determines the noun. An article belongs to a noun, but it can also be placed before a number or an adjective. Examples: the book, a book, an apple, the two men, a black cat

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