Parts of speech

Parts of speech

by Oluwatofunmi Omotoso -
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A noun is a name of a person, place or thing

Examples: Dog, paris, Doris, London

A pronoun is a word used instead or in place of a noun e.g Him, she, her, he, ours, theirs

A verb is an action or doing word e.g  fighting, dancing, beating, shouting

A conjunction is a word that joins sentences together e.g Between, so, is. 

A preposition states the position of the noun e.g Below, above, across, around

An adverb modifies a noun, it states details about a noun like time, quality e.g Slowly, gracefully, late.