This document defines and provides examples of the eight common parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. It explains that understanding parts of speech can improve writing, proofreading, and reading skills. Additionally, it notes that the basic sentence structure in English contains a subject and a verb, and provides examples of identifying subjects and objects in sample sentences.

1. Parts of Speech

2. Why learn the parts of speech?
◦ Understanding the way sentences are structured can increase your
awareness of how to write accurately.
◦ In English, the very basic sentence is normally with a combination of a
subject and a verb, known as the part of speech. This resource will show you
the eight parts of speech as well as subject and object. Knowing them can
improve your writing, proofreading skills, and reading comprehension.

3. Part of speech Words
Noun Words to represent name, people, places, things, ideas
Pronoun Words to replace nouns
Verb Words to show an action or a state of being
Adjective Words to describe nouns / pronouns
Adverb Words to describe verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Preposition Words to describe the relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word
or element in the rest of the sentence
Conjunction Words to join two or more words, phrases, or clauses
Interjection Words that show emotion
e.g. Wow, the anxious student listened to the teacher carefully and
noted down key information.

4. It is also useful to understand what is a subject because the very basic
sentence structure in English is with a combination of a subject and a verb.
Can you guess which word in the following sentence is a subject?
The anxious student listened to the teacher
carefully and noted down key information.

5. The anxious student listened to the teacher
carefully and noted down key information.
The student is the subject in this sentence.

6. It is also useful to understand what is an object because apart from the very
basic sentence structure with a combination of a subject and a verb, it is also
common to see an object in a sentence.
Can you guess which word in the following sentence is an object?
The anxious student listened to the teacher
carefully and noted down key information.

7. The anxious student listened to the teacher
carefully and noted down key information.
The teacher and the key information are the object in this sentence.