Part of speech

Part of speech

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Part of speech" refers to the category a word belongs to based on its function in a sentence. There are eight main parts of speech in English:


Noun – names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Example: boy, school, love


Pronoun – replaces a noun.

Example: he, she, it, they


Verb – shows action or state of being.

Example: run, eat, is, are


Adjective – describes a noun or pronoun.

Example: big, happy, blue


Adverb – describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

Example: quickly, very, well


Preposition – shows relationship between a noun/pronoun and other words.

Example: in, on, at, under


Conjunction – connects words or groups of words.

Example: and, but, or, because


Interjection – expresses strong feeling or emotion.

Example: wow! oh! hey!


If you give me a word, I can tell you its part of speech and how it's used