Parts of Speech Table
| Part of speech | function or “job” | example words | example sentences |
| Verb | action or state | (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must | EnglishClub is a web site. I likeEnglishClub. |
| Noun | thing or person | pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John | This is my dog. He lives in my house. 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 likebig dogs. |
| Adverb | describes a verb, adjective or adverb | quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really | My dog eats quickly. When he is veryhungry, 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 onMonday. |
| Conjunction | joins clauses or sentences or words | and, but, when | I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats anddogs. I like dogs but I don’t like cats. |
| Interjection | short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence | oh!, ouch!, hi!, well | Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don’t know. |
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