3. Parts of speech
Classification of word in a sentence is called parts of speech. There are 8 parts
of speech in English.
•Noun
•Pronoun
•Verb
•Adverb
•Adjective
•Preposition
•Conjunction
•Interjection
4. 1) Noun
Noun is the name of anything, person or place.
Example:
Dog, Ali, Karachi etc.
Types of Noun
•Common Noun
•Proper Noun
•Collective Noun
•Compound Noun
•Material Noun
•Abstract Noun
•Concrete Noun
5. A) Common Noun
The Name of any common thing person and animals is called common Noun.
Example:
Boy, Pen, city, Girl.
B) Proper Noun
The name of any special thing, person and animals is called proper noun.
Example:
Ahsan, Lahore, Hero pen etc.
C) Collective Noun
A noun that used for number of things or people but consider as one is
called collective noun.
Example:
Class, Teacher, Staff, Crew, Crowed etc.
6. D) Material Noun
Material noun is the name of something which is used for making
other thing.
Example:
Milk, Water, Gold, Silver etc.
E) Concrete Noun
Concrete Noun are nouns that refer to things that exist
physically and can be touched, seen, smelled, felt or tasted.
Example:
Watching, Thirst, Ability etc.
7. F) Abstract Noun
A noun that we cannot touch and see without material world is called
abstract noun.
Example:
God, Sound, Air, Happiness, Ache, Pain etc.
G) Compound Noun
A noun that is made by two or more nouns is called compound noun.
Example:
Class room, Office chairs, Class teachers etc.
8. Types of Pronoun
•Personal Pronoun
•Demonstrative Pronoun
•Indefinite Pronoun
•Intensive Pronoun
•Interrogative Pronoun
•Relative Pronoun
•Reflexive Pronoun
2) Pronoun
A word that is used Instead of noun is called Pronoun.
Example:
He, She, It, I, We, You, They, etc.
9. A) Personal Pronoun
Pronoun which is used for person is called personal pronoun..
Example:
I, We, You, They, He, She, One etc.
B) Demonstrative Pronoun
A demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that is used to point to something
specific within a sentence. These pronouns can indicate items in space or time,
and they can be either singular or plural.
Example:
This, It, These, Those, That etc.
C) Interrogative Pronoun
Interrogative pronoun are those which ask questions.
Example:
Who, which, what, whom and whose etc.
10. D) Indefinite Pronoun
Indefinite pronouns are those which refer to persons or things in a general
way.
Example:
All, Many, Some, Few and much etc.
E) Relative Pronoun
Relative pronoun are those which relate to some nouns going before in
the sentence.
Example:
Who, Whose, Whom, Which, What and that etc.
F) Reflexive Pronoun
Reflexive pronoun are those which are objects and refer to same persons as
the subject of verbs. They end self and selves.
Example:
Myself, Yourself, Itself, Ourselves, Themselves etc.
11. G) Intensive pronoun
Intensive pronoun is almost identical to reflexive pronoun, an intensive
pronoun is different from a reflexive because the pronoun can be removed without
altering the meaning of the sentence. An intensive pronoun adds emphasis to a
statement.
Example:
Myself, Itself, Himself and Yourself etc.
3) Verb
Word that express action or presence is called verb or a verb is a word
that shows an action of for saying something about some person or thing.
Example:
Running, Jumping, Laughing and Cycling etc.
12. Types of verb
•Transitive Verb
•Intransitive Verb
•Action Verb
•Helping Verb
•Linking Verb
A) Transitive Verb
Verb that needs object is called transitive verb.
Example:
Eat, Speak, Meet, Etc.
13. B) Intransitive Verb
Verb that does not need object is called Intransitive verb.
Example:
Go, Sleep, Swim, Run, etc.
C) Action Verb
This tells what the subject is doing.
Example:
Walk, swim, tell and hide etc.
D) Helping verb
Verb which combines with a main verb to help it. They are added
before the main verb and also called an auxiliary verb.
Example:
Is, are, am, was, have, had, will, shall etc.
14. E) Linking verb
Verb that connect or links a subject to a noun or an Adjective in a
predicate.
Example:
Is, are, was, were, been and am etc.
4) Adverb
A word that tell us something about verb is called Adverb.
Example:
Slowly, Beautifully, Early, Well
•You are lazy =Adjective
•You are working lazily = Adverb
15. Kind of Adverb
•Adverb of manner
•Adverb of time
•Adverb of place
•Adverb of degree
A) Adverb of manner
An adverb goes with verb to tell “How” is called adverb of manner.
Example:
•She is coming badly.
•He sang Nicely.
16. B) Adverb of Place
An adverb goes with verb to tell “Where” is called adverb of place.
Example:
•She sang a song there.
•They gave test here.
C) Adverb of Time
An adverb goes with verb to tell “When” is called adverb of time.
Example:
•He ate early.
D) Adverb of Degree
An adverb goes with verb to tell “How much or how little” is called adverb of
degree.
Example:
•They are extremely tired.
17. 5) Adjective
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun to make it more specific.
Example:
Intelligent, beautiful, Nobel etc.
Types of Adjective
• Proper Adjective
• Adjective of Quality
• Adjective of Quantity
• Demonstrative adjective
• Interrogative adjective
• Possessive Adjective
• Adjective of number
18. A) Proper Adjective
It is formed for a proper noun.
Example:
NOUN ADJECTIVE
Pakistan Pakistani
China Chinese
B) Adjective of Quality
An adjective that shows the quality of noun or pronoun is called adjective of
quality.
Example:
small, White, Cloudy, Sharp, Black, etc.
19. C) Adjective of number
A numeral adjective shows number of a persons or things.
Example:
•Three boys
•Many flowers
D) Adjective of Quantity
An adjective that shows the quantity of noun or pronoun is called
Adjective of quantity.
Example:
• There is a chair in the class.
• There are many students in the class.
20. E) Demonstrative Adjective
An adjective that point out of noun or pronoun is called demonstrative
Adjective.
Example:
This, That, There, Those
F) Interrogative Adjective
An adjective that ask the question is called Interrogative Adjective.
Example:
What, when, how etc.
G) A Possessive Adjective
A possessive adjective is used with noun to show possession.
Example:
•My Pen
•Our books
21. 6) Preposition
A preposition is a word placed before a noun. That word relates a
noun or pronoun to another in the sentences.
Examples:
At, under, on, in, from, to, with, by etc.
Types of Preposition
• Place of Preposition
• Time of Preposition
• Direction of Preposition
22. A) Place of Preposition
Preposition of place refer to those preposition which can be used to
show where something is located.
Example:
Above, on, at, across, between and over.
B) Time of Preposition
A preposition of time helps to link the noun or pronoun with the time
value. It function as an indicator.
Example:
About, at ,on, since, ago and between etc.
C) Direction of Proposition
A preposition is a where to go where to put something.
Example:
To, on, into, in, onto and toward etc.
23. 7) Conjunction
A word join together two word phrases or sentence is called
conjunction.
Example:
And, But, Although, If, Until, While, Because etc.
Types of conjunction
•Coordinating conjunction
•Subordinating conjunction
•Correlative conjunction
24. Coordinating conjunction
A coordinating conjunction is a word that connects words, phrases, or
sentences.
Example:
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
Subordinating conjunction
A conjunction that connects subordinate words, phrases, or clauses to some
other sentence element.
Example:
if, as, so, unless, although, when.
Correlative conjunction
A correlative conjunction is a pair of joining words that connects two
words, phrases, or clauses that are balanced together.
Example:
Nor, Neither, Or, And, Both etc.
25. 8) Interjection
A word that express sudden feeling or emotion is called interjection.
Example:
Alas, Ouch, Hurry, Good, Oh, What, Hurrah, Hallo etc.
Types of Interjections
Here are the basic kinds of interjections:
Interjections for Greeting - these include: Hello! , Hey! , Hi! Etc.
Interjections for Joy - these include: Hurrah! , Hurray! , Wow! etc.
Interjections for Approval - these include: Bravo! , Brilliant! , Well done! etc.