Don’t forget to share this lesson with your friends and leave us a comment telling us why you liked it! Now it’s your turn! Read the phrases below and identify the parts of speech. Interjections are short words or phrases used to express emotion, often surprise or excitement. The tall man and his dog walk in the street. The tall man’s dog walks in the street too. Remember that they usually indicate the position of something in relation to something else.Ī conjunction (and, but, or, so….) is used to join clauses, sentences, or words.Į.g. We use prepositions (in, out, on, of, between, at, to, for, up, below…) to show the relationship between a noun and another word in the sentence. In this example, the man is being described as tall (not short, not average height) and his dog as small (not big, not average size). The tall man walks his small dog in the street. In this example, the word quickly is being used to describe the action, or verb, walks.Īdjectives describe the characteristics of a noun or pronoun.Į.g. He walks his dog quickly! (How does he walk his dog? Quickly.) These words often end in –ly but that is not always the case.Į.g.

John walks his dog quickly.Ī verb is an action word and generally indicates some sort of movement or activity.Īn adverb describes the way in which an action is done. A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody…) takes the place of a noun.Į.g. To avoid repeating a noun too many times, we use pronouns.

In the example above, dog is still a common noun, however his name is a proper noun. John walks his dog, Rufus, on Hastings Street. Proper nouns are the specific names of the nouns and always start with a capital letter.Į.g. Common nouns are used to describe a category of person, place, or thing, for example toy, park, child.Į.g. Nouns are used to identify/talk about people, places, and things.

It’s important to know the different ‘types’ of words as soon as possible, because these basics will make it easier to learn more complex pieces of language, and follow more advanced lessons when you’re getting ready to study English abroad! When your teacher talks about ‘parts of speech’, they’re talking about the building blocks of the language.

What part of speech is the word but