The nine parts of speech are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and articles. These are important because they give meaning to the sentence. Each part has more details, for example:
- Nouns: The nouns can be common or proper, concrete or abstract, and also have both a singular and a plural form.
- Adjectives: The adjective grammatical structure can be adjective + noun or noun/pronoun + liking verb + adjective. Its principal characteristics are to give more information about nouns. It can be possessive adjectives, comparative, or superlative adjectives.
- Pronoun: Pronouns are similar to nouns and are commonly used in sentences to replace nouns. In English, we have different types of pronouns. For example, personal pronouns can be subjects or objects in a sentence (me, you, him, her, them, it, us), or reflexive pronouns are words ending in -self or -selves (myself, yourself, himself, etc), or relative pronoun is a word that introduces a depent clause and connects it to an indepent clause (who, whom, which, etc).
- Verbs: The verbs describe an action or a state; their principal characteristics are that verbs are the only part of speech that show past, future, or present tense. The verbs can be transitive and intransitive, or auxiliary verbs (to be, to have, to do), or modal verbs (can/could, will/would, must, may, etc.)
- Adverbs: The adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Adverbs often end in -ly, but that's not always the case.
- Conjunctions: There are three types of conjunctions: coordinating (often represented by the acronym FANBOYS), correlative, or subordinating.
- Prepositions: describe the relationship with other words in a sentence.
- Interjection: Wow, Ouch
- Article