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The English language, as many (if not all) languages around the world, has a defined gramatical structure, however, before we dip our toes in those waters, there’s something you should know.
In the English language, we have 9 different parts of speech. Here you can find an easy explanation to each one and different examples of them:
1. Nouns: words that give a name to something.
Examples: Chair, table, dog, mother, Alexis, computer, car, horse, Fernanda, Mexico…
2. Articles: these are employed to define or to reference to a noun. A / AN / THE…
Examples: The chair, an apple, a donkey…
3. Verbs: they are words that describe actions. In English, we have 2 types of verbs: regular and irregular.
Irregular verbs are a bit tricky, because they cannot be changed to the past tense with the -ed ending, like in the regular verbs.
Examples: Dance, swim, see, like, love, live, play, sing…
4. Pronouns: these words are used to replace nouns. The most common are the personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they), but there are others, like adjective pronouns, object pronouns and possessive pronouns.
5. Adjectives: words that describe nouns or pronouns. There are also different types of adjectives, like demonstrative (this/that), quantity, quality, age, etc.
Examples: Happy, nice, pretty, red, green, white, old, young, many, a lot…
6. Adverbs: these words are usually employed to modify, or further explain an adjective, another adverb or a verb. Adverbs are easily recognizable, because most of them end with the suffix -ly. Adverbs can be made from adjectives, verbs or nouns.
Examples: Lovely, nicely, quickly, beautifully…
7. Conjunctions: these are particles or syllables that help us join two or more sentences or ideas.
The most common are: and, but, for, so…
8. Prepositions: These words help us understand the relation between a noun and its position in a determined place, time, manner or reason.
Examples: in, on, under, at, by, next to, between…
9. Interjections: better known as exclamations, these words help us show emotions through speech.
Examples: wow! phew! hooray! well!…
Each and every part of speech have more than one subclassification that we will explore in depth in further posts.
Were you aware of all these categories? Did you know them by name? Do you think it’s possible use them all in a single sentence? Which part of speech do you find more useful? Share your thoughts in the comments below 🙂
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