Parts of Speech

Parts of Speech:

Words we use are divided into the following classifications:

Classification	Description	Example
Noun	A noun is the name of a person place or thing	Mother, apple, shoe, house
Verb	A verb is a doing or being word	Walk, run, jump, sing, be, have, go, can, think
Pronoun	A pronoun replaces a noun	I, me, he, she, it, hers, his, you, they, them
Adjective	An adjective describes a noun	Big, blue, pretty, silly, smelly, poor
Adverb	An adverb describes a verb	Quickly, fast, freely, shamefully, often, unfortunately
Preposition	A preposition relates one word to another	Above, at, after, near, with, from, to
Conjunction	A conjunction joins words and phrases together	And, as because, but, or, since, so, until, while
Interjection	An interjection expresses emotion	Hurray, eh, oh, wow, urgh, ugh

Parts of Speech 2:

Further parts of speech are put into the following classifications:

Classification	Description	Example
Article	An article is a word that introduces a noun or a noun phrase, and also limits or clarifies it.	In English, the indefinite articles are a and an; the definite article is the.
Abbreviation	An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word (or phrase). An abbreviation is pronounced identically to the long form of the word.	For example, Mr. is pronounced "Mister." They are used to save time and space. Some are followed by a full-stop:  Mr., Prof., ft. and Aug but some are not: cm, min, NY, and mph. Mrs. and Ms. are not shortened forms of other words (so they are not abbreviations).
Compound word	A compound word is a word that is made up of two or more other words.	For example, the word dragonfly is made up of two words, dragon and fly. Eg: starfish, update, roadside
Contraction	A contraction is a shortened form of one or two words (one of which is usually a verb). an apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter or letters.	I'm (I am), can't (cannot), how's (how is), and Ma'am (Madam). Eg:"don't" = "do not";  "o'clock," = "of the clock."
Prefix	A prefix is a group of letters placed before the root of a word.	"unhappy" ="un-" ["not"] + "happy"; = "not happy."
Suffix	A suffix is a group of letters placed after the root of a word.	Eg: "flavour + "-less" ["without"]; = "having no flavour."
Punctuation marks	Punctuation marks are symbols that are used to aid the clarity and comprehension of written language.	Eg: full-stop, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe, quotation mark and hyphen.