Parts of Speech:
Words we use are divided
into the following classifications:
Classification
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Description
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Example
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Noun
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A noun is the name of a person place or thing
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Mother, apple, shoe, house
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Verb
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A verb is a doing or being word
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Walk, run, jump, sing, be, have, go, can, think
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Pronoun
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A pronoun replaces a noun
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I, me, he, she, it, hers, his, you, they, them
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Adjective
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An adjective describes a noun
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Big, blue, pretty, silly, smelly, poor
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Adverb
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An adverb describes a verb
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Quickly, fast, freely, shamefully, often,
unfortunately
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Preposition
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A preposition relates one word to another
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Above, at, after, near, with, from, to
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Conjunction
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A conjunction joins words and phrases together
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And, as because, but, or, since, so, until, while
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Interjection
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An interjection expresses emotion
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Hurray, eh, oh, wow, urgh, ugh
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Parts of Speech 2:
Further parts of speech
are put into the following classifications:
Classification
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Description
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Example
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Article
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An article is a word that introduces a noun or a
noun phrase, and also limits or clarifies it.
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In English, the indefinite articles are a and an;
the definite article is the.
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Abbreviation
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An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word (or
phrase). An abbreviation is pronounced identically to the long form of the
word.
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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).
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Compound word
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A compound word is a word that is made up of two
or more other words.
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For example, the word dragonfly is made up of two
words, dragon and fly.
Eg: starfish, update, roadside
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Contraction
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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.
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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."
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Prefix
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A prefix is a group of letters
placed before the root of a word.
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"unhappy" ="un-" ["not"]
+ "happy"; = "not happy."
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Suffix
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A suffix is a group of letters
placed after the root of a word.
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Eg: "flavour + "-less"
["without"]; = "having no flavour."
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Punctuation marks
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Punctuation marks are symbols that are used to
aid the clarity and comprehension of written language.
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Eg: full-stop, comma, question mark, exclamation mark,
apostrophe, quotation mark and hyphen.
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